Pieter Willem Frederik Wenning (1873-1921)

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Pieter Willem Frederik Wenning (1873-1921)

Cottages at Claremont

Details

Pieter Willem Frederik Wenning (1873-1921)
Cottages at Claremont
signed 'P Wenning' (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on board
11 x 15in. (27.9 x 38.2cm.)

Provenance

R.P. Gain, Cape Town, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Pieter Wenning Commemorative Exhibition [1967] (according to a detached label which accompanies the lot).

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Sale room notice

The provenance in the printed catalogue should read:
R. P. Gain, Cape Town, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

A native of The Hague and the son of an art teacher in Leeuwarden, Wenning was sent out to South Africa in 1905 by his employer, a bookseller in Amsterdam, Wenning only began painting seriously in 1916-17, after D.C. Boonzaier spotted his work and raised enough funds to take him away from his clerk's job in a Pretoria bookshop and support a full-time career. He moved down to the Cape in the winter of 1916, renting a studio in Newlands near his friend Boonzaier. He spent the rest of his life painting, primarily in the Cape, until his untimely death just six years later.

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