Live auction - Lot 256
An interesting figure in the history of South Africa
Herman Dirk van Broekhuizen.
Transvaal, late 19th-early 20th c
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Black, white and beige chalk, 38,9 x 31,9 cm, grey wove paper, signed, titled and located "Dr. Broekhuizen - Transvaal / Willy Sluiter", label "727" (few holes, few spots, corner missing).
Hinged at upper edges, under passe-partout.
Accomplished portrait by the Dutch Willy Sluiter (1873-1949), made in Transvaal in present-day South Africa. Dr. Herman Dirk van Broekhuizen (1871-1953) was a South African minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who got involved in the Second Boer War and married Elsie Elsoff, the granddaughter of Paul Kruger. Van Broekhuizen later became a member of parliament and a campaigner for an Afrikaans-speaking university in Pretoria. When he was young, he also played for the national rugby team.
Prov. Veiling atelier W.S. te Dordrecht 1952 (label).
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