Lot 344: Tinus de Jongh - The Huguenot Memorial Building, Cape Town

Tinus de Jongh
The Huguenot Memorial Building, Cape Town
signed; a label adhered to the reverse reads as follows: "Hierdie waterverf skildery deur Tinus de Jongh was spesiaal geskilder vir my oom Bart en tante Lum Rosing (tante Gina se ouers). Tante Lum was 'n suster van my oupa. Oom Bart en tante Lum het in die gebou, die Hugenote Gedenksaal, gewoon, bo links, en tante Gina was daar gebore. Dit moes plus minus gedurende die jare 1923 tot 1935 gewees het wat die skildery gemaak is. Oom Bart het toe 'n restaurant en tabakwinkel gehad in Langstraat. Ek dink hy was skriba of koster van die NG Kerk sodoende het hy daar gewoon."
watercolour
45 by 31cm excluding frame; 64 by 48 by 1,5cm including frame

A gift from the artist to the current owner's family, and thence by descent.   Accompanied by a framed article from The Woodstock Whisperer, June/July 2005, on Bartels' Famous Confectionery Works.  'Oom Bart' was possibly related to the Bartels who ran sweet shops in Long, Church and Plein Streets from 1905 to 1959.