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Harry Stratford Caldecott
Introduction Harry Stratford Caldecott (1886 – 1929) was a South African Impressionist and modern artist, born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province. He gained recognition as the leading exponent of French Impressionism at the Cape, having absorbed its vision and style before settling there permanently in 1923. Caldecott’s artistic journey began with an early fascination for painting, nurtured by a family steeped in artistic tradition—
his father, Harry Stratford Senior, was an attorney and his mother, Martha Johanna Sauer, descended from prominent colonial figures. Educated at St John's College Johannesburg and the South African College School Cape Town, he honed his skills before embarking on a Parisian adventure in 1912, studying under Gabriel Ferrier at the Academie Julian and Ecole des Beaux Arts. The outbreak of World War I briefly interrupted his artistic purs…