Rev. William Govan, 1804 - 1875. Missionary in South Africa
About this artwork
This calotype was one of many studies for Hill’s large-scale painting relating to the 1843 disruption of the Church of Scotland. The final painting was completed in 1866. Ordained in Glasgow, Rev. William Govan was sent to South Africa in 1840 by the Glasgow Missionary Society. Four years later his post was transferred to the Free Church’s Foreign Mission Committee. The outbreak of the seventh in the Cape Frontier Wars in 1846 resulted in Govan returning home. He later travelled back to Lovedale in South Africa, a mission station and school, where he remained until 1870.
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title:Rev. William Govan, 1804 - 1875. Missionary in South Africa
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date created:About 1843
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:19.70 x 14.30 cm
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credit line:Purchased from the estate of Sophia Finlay (Charles Finlay's Trust), 1937
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accession number:PGP HA 985
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David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill
A painter and a lithographer by training, David Octavius Hill is best remembered for the beauty of the calotypes he and Robert Adamson produced together. Hill was a sociable and kind-hearted man who did much to support the arts in Scotland and between 1830 and 1836 he was the unpaid Secretary of...