2956792 Kroonstad, during the Boer War, 1917 (oil on board) by Howard, George, 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843-1911); Private Collection; (add.info.: Done on a small board on the spot, the snaking Valsrivier is a slick, wet stroke of white, playing against the frothy yellow freesia in the foreground. Kroonstad was the site of a refugee camp during the second Boer War, a conflict the Howards publicly opposed. Howard studied in London under Giovanni Costa, the Italian landscape artist at the core of the Etruscan Movement, which embraced plein air painting. inscribed verso \'Kroonstad, Vals River/ The Boer War/given to Henry Penfold by Rosa[lind] Countess of Carlisle, Sept 8 1917/ painted by George Jas, Earl of Carlisle\'); Photo 穢 The Maas Gallery, London.