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Harry Stratford Caldecott

Harry Stratford Caldecott (1886 - 1929) was active/lived in South Africa, France.  Harry Caldecott is known for Impressionist marine, street scenes, landscapes painting, mixed-media, drawings.

Strat Caldecott, recognised as the leading exponent of French Impressionism at the Cape, had been living and working in Paris for more than ten years before he settled in South Africa in 1923. He had absorbed the vision and style of French Impressionism and brought it to bear on the South African landscape like no other local artist. In a painting Government Avenue, Cape Town, Caldecott captures light and movement "with a freshness of vision rarely seen in the South African art of that era" (Alexander & Cohen, p.58).

Soon after Caldecott's arrival in Cape Town, he married the painter Florence Zerffi, then the curator of the Michaelis Collection. Together they lived in her flat in the courtyard of the Michaelis Gallery on Greenmarket Square. He was minutes away from Adderley and St George's Streets where he captured the colourful displays of flags, crowds of people and motor cars during the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1925.

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