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        <h1>Thomas Baines (1820-1875)</h1>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">We Perform Thomas Baines art authentication. <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/appraisal/painting-appraisal.php">Thomas Baines appraisal</a>. <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/certificate-of-authenticity.php">Thomas Baines certificates of authenticity (COA)</a>.  Thomas Baines analysis, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/provenance-research.php">research</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/scientific-tests.php">scientific tests</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication.php">full art authentications</a>. We will help you sell your Thomas Baines or we will sell it for you.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/south_african/Baines_SelfPortraitAge38.jpg" alt="Self-Portrait, Aged 38" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
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          <p><strong>Self-Portrait, Aged 38</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Thomas Baines was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Born in King’s Lynn in Norfolk, United Kingdom, Baines was apprenticed to a coach painter at an early age. When he was 22 he left England for South Africa aboard the “Olivia” (captained by a family friend William Roome) and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and as official war artist during the so-called Eighth Frontier War for the British Army.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/south_african/Baines_FingoWoodCarrier.jpg" alt="Fingo Wood Carrier" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1855 Baines joined Augustus Gregory’s 1855-1857 Royal Geographical Society sponsored expedition across northern Australia as official artist and storekeeper. The expedition’s purpose was to explore the Victoria River district in the north-west and to evaluate the entire northern area of Australia in terms of its suitability for colonial settlement. His association with the North Australian Expedition was the highpoint of his career, and he was warmly commended for his contribution to it, to the extent that Mount Baines and the Baines River were named in honor of him.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/south_african/baines_aboriginees_victoria.jpg" alt="Thomas Baines with Aborigines Near the Victoria River 1857" width="auto"></p>
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          <p><strong>Thomas Baines with Aborigines Near the Victoria River 1857</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1858 Baines accompanied David Livingstone along the Zambezi, and was one of the first white men to view Victoria Falls. In 1869 Baines led one of the first gold prospecting expeditions to Mashonaland in what later became Rhodesia.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/south_african/Baines_BritishSettlersOf1820.jpg" alt="The British Settlers of 1820 Landing in Algoa Bay, 1853" width="auto"></p>
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          <p><strong>The British Settlers of 1820 Landing in Algoa Bay, 1853</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">From 1861 to 1862 Baines and James Chapman undertook an expedition to South West Africa. Chapman’s Travels in the Interior of South Africa (1868) and Baines’ Explorations in South-West Africa (1864), provide a rare account of different perspectives on the same trip. This was the first expedition during which extensive use was made of both photography and painting, and in addition both men kept journals in which, amongst other things, they commented on their own and each other’s practice.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/south_african/Baines_Waterkloptf.jpg" alt="Waterkloof Sketch" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
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          <p><strong>Waterkloof Sketch</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1870 Baines was granted a concession to explore for gold between the Gweru and Hunyani rivers by Lobengula, leader of the Matabele nation. Thomas Baines died in Durban in 1875.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/south_african/Baines_BaobabTreeSouthAfrica.jpg" alt="Baobob Tree, South Africa Watercolor 1861" width="auto"></p>
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          <p><strong>Baobob Tree, South Africa Watercolor 1861</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Baines is today best known for his detailed paintings and sketches which give a unique insight into colonial life in southern Africa and Australia. Many of his pictures are held by the National Library of Australia, National Archives of Zimbabwe, National Maritime Museum, Brenthurst Library and the Royal Geographical Society.</p>
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          <p><strong>The Falls from the West End of the Chasm 1862</strong></p>
         
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