King Khama III Etching

An etching of King Khama III (1837-1923), who was sculpted in bronze by the Dutch-born South African artist Anton van Wouw (1862-1945). The photograph of the Van Wouw sketch was taken by the South African art historian and lecturer Murray Schoonraad (1932-1991) while compiling the Anton van Wouw Archive in 1981. Short biography: Anton van Wouw was born on 26 December 1862 in Driebergen in the Netherlands. He started life after school as a stucco worker in Delft, where he learned to sculpt. He also began studying at the Rotterdam Academy for Arts but stopped to join his father and brother in South Africa. After having a hard time as an artist in the early beginnings of his career in the then Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic), Van Wouw finally got his big break when Sammy Marks, a wealthy industrialist, commissioned Van Wouw to create the famous Kruger Memorial, currently situated on Church Square in the centre of South Africa's Capital city Pretoria. From there, Van Wouw went from making over 10 large monuments to more than 100 other sculptures in his lifetime. Anton van Wouw passed away in Pretoria in 1945 just after completing his largest work, a figure of Woman and Children for the Voortrekker Monument.