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Permit application for temporary display of " Anna de Koningh" at the Rijks Museum and restoration and preservation of Olof Bergh and Anna de Koningh portraits

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The Rijks Museum in Amsterdam is planning to mount a major three month exhibition in 2017 exploring the complex history of relations between the Netherlands and South Africa from the early seventeenth century up to the final decade of the twentieth. As the theme of the exhibition (titled “Good Hope”) is the early slave trade (an entire gallery will feature this aspect), plus the varied cultures of South Africa up to the present, the Rijks Museum has approached me to temporarily loan them the framed drawing, which I will describe below.

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Anna de Koningh was the daughter of a freed slave, Angela of Bengaal, who was brought to the Cape in 1655 and was placed in the service of Jan van Riebeeck. Anna de Koningh (born 1661) married Olof Bergh, a Swede and Captain of the Garrison at the Cape. Olof Bergh owned the historic home of Groot Constantia after the departure of Simon van der Stel and after his death (1724) Anna de Koningh owned Groot Constantia and several other properties for a further ten years. She died in 1734. The portraits of Anna de Koningh and Olof Bergh are 38.0 cms across x 47.5 cms vertically – this includes the wooden frame, which is 3.5 cms wide. The actual sketches are therefore 31 cms across and 40.5 cms in height. The artist is ABRAHAM SALM, who worked from the middle of the 17th century until well into the eighteenth, and visited the Cape, where he did some of his etchings. The drawings are signed by him. The date on the drawing is stated as “Anno” 1685 – at the age of “Statis Suo? ” 24……

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Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 16:36

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