Frans Oerder
South African 1867-1944
Farmyard Scene (Girl and Dairy Cow)
signed
oil on canvas
37 by 32,5cm excluding frame; 60,5 by 75 by 10cm including frame
† VAT will be charged on both hammer and premium for this lot
Acquired from the artist by General Benjamin Viljoen, Amsterdam.
Private Estate Sale in 1917, La Mesa, New Mexico.
Direct descent to a Private Collector, California.
The DinksFãStan Private Collection, United Kingdom.
General Benjamin Viljoen, born in 1868, distinguished himself in key battles during the Anglo-Boer War. Notably, in the Vaal Kranz, and later at the Battle of Helvatia where he secured a significant victory,capturing the Lady Roberts naval gun. After the war, Viljoen emigrated to the United States, where he played a pivotal role in establishing a Boer colony in Mexico with the assistance of Theodore Roosevelt andserved as a military advisor during the Mexican Revolution. He passed away in 1917 in La Mesa, New Mexico.1
The present lot portrays a young girl leaning over a wooden fence and is believed to depict a relative of Frans Oerders' wife, Gerde Pitlo (a flower painter), whom he married after relocating to Rotterdam in 1908.
1. Geni (no date) Generaal Ben Viljoen, online, https://www.geni.com/people/Generaal-Ben-Viljoen/6000000022245499624, accessed 30 May 2024.
Lot Details
Frans Oerder
South African 1867-1944
Farmyard Scene (Girl and Dairy Cow)
signed
oil on canvas
37 by 32,5cm excluding frame; 60,5 by 75 by 10cm including frame
† VAT will be charged on both hammer and premium for this lot
Acquired from the artist by General Benjamin Viljoen, Amsterdam.
Private Estate Sale in 1917, La Mesa, New Mexico.
Direct descent to a Private Collector, California.
The DinksFãStan Private Collection, United Kingdom.
General Benjamin Viljoen, born in 1868, distinguished himself in key battles during the Anglo-Boer War. Notably, in the Vaal Kranz, and later at the Battle of Helvatia where he secured a significant victory,capturing the Lady Roberts naval gun. After the war, Viljoen emigrated to the United States, where he played a pivotal role in establishing a Boer colony in Mexico with the assistance of Theodore Roosevelt andserved as a military advisor during the Mexican Revolution. He passed away in 1917 in La Mesa, New Mexico.1
The present lot portrays a young girl leaning over a wooden fence and is believed to depict a relative of Frans Oerders' wife, Gerde Pitlo (a flower painter), whom he married after relocating to Rotterdam in 1908.
1. Geni (no date) Generaal Ben Viljoen, online, https://www.geni.com/people/Generaal-Ben-Viljoen/6000000022245499624, accessed 30 May 2024.
