BY AND AFTER CHARLES DAVIDSON BELL

BY AND AFTER CHARLES DAVIDSON BELL, FRSE (1813-1882) PORTRAITS OF THE HON JOHN BARDWELL EBDEN OF EKELENBURG, RODENBOSCH, CAPE COLONY AND HIS WIFE ENID BELL SANDERS, NÉE HOPKINS two, lithographs 1849, oval, 24 x 18cm, a Victorian photograph of a miniature of their daughter Martha Antoinette Ebden at about the time of her marriage to Charles Davidson Bell and a small group of other prints and photographs mainly of members of the Brodie familyThe lithographs of pencil drawings by Bell would appear to be extremely rare and were presumably printed in the Colony. Charles Davidson Bell was the first Surveyor General in the Cape Colony and an accomplished artist, who designed by the famous triangular Cape of Good Hope postage stamps. He married, as his first wife, on 3rd June 1841 Martha Antoinette Ebden by whom he had three children before divorcing her in 1850 on the grounds of her adultery with Dr Lestock Wilson Stewart.