Seventeenth-century Flemish paintings in South African collections: a colonial heritage

Abstract

My interest in seventeenth-century Flemish paintings led me to research 1 such works in South African public, private and corporate collections. 2 As a starting point, I used Jillian Carman's 1994 publication on Seventeenthcentury Dutch and Flemish paintings in South Africa, compiled in collaboration with the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), which offers an overview, in terms of empirical data, of what is available in public collections. Her checklist includes