national library of south africa cape town Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/national-library-of-south-africa-cape-town Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:49:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SOUTH AFRICA Queen Victoria Street Cape Town http://toursmaps.com/national-library-of-south-africa-queen-victoria-street-cape-town.html http://toursmaps.com/national-library-of-south-africa-queen-victoria-street-cape-town.html#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:22:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=247624 Portrait of HRH Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria’s favourite son, presented to the library on its opening in 1861 and signed by the artist, Frederick Say (b.1804). During his working life (1830-1860), Say was a fairly prominent society portrait painter, counting the Royal Family as his most high profile clients. After his death, in 1868, he seems to have been largely forgotten. This was one of his last major commissions; painted in commemoration of Alfred’s visit to the Colony to inaugurate new harbour works in Table Bay. Basevi’s Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge was the model for the design of what is

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