Boer War art

Art associated with the Boer War

Lady Elizabeth Butler's Defence of Rorke's Drift (1880), although it specifically concerns an episode in the first Anglo-Boer war, offers an archetypical representation of colonial battles.

See also David Hart's ideas on The Art of War and Peace in his excellent Responses to War pages at the University of Adelaide.

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1890) by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, and Frederick Goodall
can be seen online at the National Portrait Gallery

John Liston Byam Shaw, The Boer War at Birmingham City Art Gallery, from Paul Ripley's Victorian Art in Britain site :

The Empty Saddle by J P Beadle.

Often called The Last Patrol, the painting depicts a scene from the Boer war, showing a party of Lancers bringing a riderless horse back from patrol.

Two paintings (not yet online) by Godfrey Douglas Giles (1857-1941), at the National Army Museum :

The Advance of French’s Cavalry Brigade to Relieve Kimberley, 13 February 1900 (1901). Oil on canvas, 74.5 x 125 cms
The Attack on Cronje’s Force at Vedute Drift near Paardeberg, 1900 Oil on canvas, 74.5 x 125 cms

The Graphic employed Giles, a veteran of the 1st Sudan War (1884-1885), as a special artist during the Boer War; he was present at the Relief of Kimberley and the Capture of Cronje.

The commercial site of Cranston Fine Arts military prints has some good examples of art inspired by the Boer war.

George Harcourt, 1900
Antietam National Battlefield Historical Site, National Park Service

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