Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0008967 | biography | Edward Arthur Roworth | 1880-1963 | – |
| B-0008964 | biography | John William Roome | 1951 | – |
| B-0008957 | biography | Barry “Anderson” Richards | 1945 | ✓ |
| B-0008956 | biography | Clive Edward Butler Rice | 1949-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0008952 | biography | Jonathan Neil Rhodes | 1969 | ✓ |
| B-0008947 | biography | Francis William Reitz | 1844-1934 | ✓ |
| B-0008933 | biography | Daniel Sefudi Rakgoathe | 1937-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0008918 | biography | William Wellington Gqoba | 1840-1888 | ✓ |
| B-0008917 | biography | Ethel Ruth Prowse | 1883-1967 | – |
| B-0008912 | biography | Gustav Preller | 1875-1943 | – |
| B-0008910 | biography | Jean Powell | – | – |
| B-0008904 | biography | Shaun Maclean Pollock | 1973 | ✓ |
| B-0008873 | biography | Lorna Peirson | 1920 | – |
| B-0008859 | biography | Frederick Hutchinson Page | 1908-1984 | ✓ |
| B-0008853 | biography | John O’ Malley | 1922-2005 | – |
Edward Arthur Roworth
Edward Roworth was a British born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer…
John William Roome
Roome was born in Pietersburg, Northern Province. He studied at Rhodes University and obtained a BA(FA) in 1974 and an MA(FA) in 1975. …
Barry “Anderson” Richards
Barry Anderson Richards was born on 21 July 1945 in Morningside, Durban in Natal. Richards played cricket for Natal at his early teens…
Clive Edward Butler Rice
Clive Rice was born on 23 July 1949 in Johannesburg. His education started at St. Johns College and from there to Damelin College in…
Jonathan Neil Rhodes
Jonathan Neil Rhodes, better known as Jonty, was born in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal on 27 July 1969. He grew up in the picturesque…
Francis William Reitz
Francis William Reitz was born in Swellendam in 1844. He became an advocate and from 1874 was the President of the Orange Free State Appeal…
Daniel Sefudi Rakgoathe
Daniel Sefudi (Dan) Rakgoathe was born on 25 February 1937 in Randfontein, Transvaal. From Standard VI, Rakgoathe was taught art by Mr…
William Wellington Gqoba
William Wellington Gqoba was born in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in…
Ethel Ruth Prowse
Born in Queenstown in 1833, Ruth Prowse is known for her significant contribution to South African Art. She spent her childhood on the…
Gustav Preller
Preller championed Afrikaner culture and became a literary critic of great significance. He worked as editor of Die Brandwag and produce…
Jean Powell
Powell was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art of the Durban College of Art (now the Durban Institute of Technology), and for a three-year…
Shaun Maclean Pollock
Shaun Pollock was born on 16 July 1973 in Port Elizabeth and moved to Durban at the age of five. Born to a cricketing family, his father…
Lorna Peirson
She was born in Beckenham, London. The family emigrated to South Africa in 1927. She obtained a BA(FA) in 1950 from UN(P). From 1941 to…
Frederick Hutchinson Page
Fred Page is best-known for his eerie images which, according to one critic, have made him known as ‘a kind of Hitchcock among painters’…
John O’ Malley
John O'Malley was born on 6 October 1922 in what was then called Robert Heights, later Voortrekkerhoogte, in Pretoria. His father was a…