17757 Photograph

The Parliament Collection:
Head and shoulders portrait of a man in three quarter view, looking to the viewer's left. He has a trimmed black beard and wears a dark leather jacket with a velvet collar, and a small white bow tie. Oval format on a square backing. Portrait of Schalk Jacobus Van Niekerk, discoverer of the first diamond in South Africa, 1866.; Two portraits of Schalk Jacobus Van Niekerk, discoverer of the first diamond in South Africa, 1866. (See 17766 for the other portrait).