Lululaund was the magnificent Gothic house that Herkomer built in Bushey and
filled with pictures and hand-made furniture and which, after his death and
after the war, an ignorant, anti-German Council pulled down.
Bushey Studies
On the boat to Africa, a handsome Guards Officer fell
in love with her but didn't mean to marry her. She was beneath him. He wanted
to make love to her and he attracted her but she was a strict Victorian, made
stricter by the behaviour of her brothers, so she painted him instead! Later
when he heard that Philip Burrell was going to marry her, he changed his mind
and tried to grab her first.
"Me - in Africa"
Not long arrived
In Cape Town she stayed in a
Convent, showed her work in one of the big hotels and soon had a patron, Lady
de Villiers (whose husband was the Solicitor-General)
and commissions. And she moved to an exclusive boarding house where Government
and Consular Officials lived.
1904. Herr Von Bulow. German Consul. She has written her new name over Luker
Herr Keller. German Consular Official and musician in Cape Town, 1904. L H Luker signature overlaid by Burrell
A Child in Cape Town
Watercolour painted in South Africa. 1904-1907. Girl at a writing box
Watercolour painted in South Africa. 1904-1907.The Game - unfinished
Louie bathing with Table Mountain in the background. "The sea hath its pearls." - Philip.
Louie climbed Table Mountain
several times and on one occasion, watched a tribe of apes trekking - the
females and young in the middle, the males surrounding them and scouts ahead.
On another, she watched and waited as a small whirling cloud in the distance
advanced and expanded, picking up houses, uprooting trees and flattening
everything in its path.
She rejected a wealthy banker and before long, while sitting on the stoep of some friends, the man whom she already knew and
had come to find, rode up on a horse.
She did not fall in love with him but she admired and respected him and
wanted him as the father of her children - and within a month she married him.
Honeymoon carriage on the veldt. Philip on the box
The youngest son of a distinguished London
family - one brother commanded a county regiment and the eldest, Alfred, who
had wanted to be a sailor but was forced into the Church, became a naval
chaplain and, in the course of time, chaplain to the King. But he was never
happy and on a cruise with the King, he delivered his last sermon, damning
everyone and everything including the monarch himself. It was said that the
King enjoyed it, but at the end of the cruise Alfred resigned before they could
sack him. When he bought a small chemical business on the Thames,
the family was even more shocked but when it prospered they joined him and it
soon enriched them all.
When Philip was injured by a cricket ball at school, a long sea voyage was
recommended and they put him on a cargo boat and sent him round the world.
Bored with being a passenger, he worked with the crew and that voyage was his
university.