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Thomas Baines

British 1820-1875 


Thomas Baines was a British artist, naturalist, and explorer of Southern Africa and Australia. He was born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England in 1820. As a teenager, he was apprenticed to a coach painter who focused on ornamental painting and coats of arms. At the age of 22, Baines left England for South Africa and settled in Cape Town, where he became a portraitist and landscape painter. Baines became the official war artist during the Eighth Frontier War, which lasted from 1850 to 1853. In 1855 he accompanied Augustus Gregory on an expedition across northern Australia as the official artist and storekeeper, sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society. In 1858, he joined David Livingstone’s Zambezi expedition in the same capacity. However, the two men did not get along and Baines was forced to return to Cape Town before the party reached Victoria Falls. In 1861, Baines teamed up with James Chapman on his journey from South-West Africa to Victoria Falls along the Zambezi River. This trip was fruitful, producing numerous paintings of the falls by Baines, photographs by Chapman, and each published their account of the journey; Baines’ was Explorations in South-West Africa (1864). He returned to England in 1865 but found his way back to Africa in 1868, where he continued to explore Southern Africa until his death in Durban in 1875. Baines’ works are held in the collections of institutions such as the British Museum, London; Royal Geographic Society, London; National War Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland; National Library of Australia, Canberra; and National Archives of Zimbabwe, Harare.


24 lots offered      70.83% sold      ZAR 4 254 453
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Thomas Baines; 74th Regiment Encamped on the Quisanie a Small Streamlet and a Tributary of the Chumie River, 24 June 1851
19 Feb 2024
Sold for ZAR 175 875
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Thomas Baines; Attack on Stock’s Kraal in the Fish River Bush 1852
19 Feb 2024
ZAR 500 000 - 700 000
 
Thomas Baines; Brig in Table Bay
7 Nov 2022
Sold for ZAR 1 365 600
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Thomas Baines; The Victoria Falls, Zambesi River, Sketched on the Spot
3 Oct 2022
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000
 
Thomas Baines; The Victoria Falls, Zambesi River, eight
1 Jun 2020
Sold for ZAR 21 105
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Thomas Baines; Watercolours, portfolio
16 Mar 2020
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
 
Thomas Baines; The Frontier Wars 1851-1853, portfolio
16 Mar 2020
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
 
Thomas Baines; Thomas Baines: His Art in Africa
16 Sep 2019
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
 
Thomas Baines; The Victoria Falls, Zambesi River, six
9 Apr 2018
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
 
Thomas Baines; The Victoria Falls, Zambezi River, 6
27 Nov 2017
Sold for ZAR 5 855
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Thomas Baines; A Party Attacked
13 Nov 2017
Sold for ZAR 625 240
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Thomas Baines; A South Easter off The Cape
16 Oct 2017
Sold for ZAR 1 193 640
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT