Xhosa Woman - Constance Greaves

Xhosa Woman

Constance Greaves
Watercolour
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Constance Helen Greaves (b.1882 Brighton, England d.1966 Cala, Transkei)

Constance Greaves studied at the Brighton Art School. She came to Natal in 1910 and lived at Richmond. After a long stay in the Free State she returned to England in 1939, but moved to the Transkei after World War II.

Constance Greaves was a painter of portraits and figure studies in watercolour. She exhibited frequently with the Natal Society of Artists, winning the Gundelfinger Prize for "native studies" in 1930.