Exciting Revelation in the Michaelis Collection - Iziko Museums

FMC News
Spring Summer Edition 2011
VRIENDE VAN DIE MICHAELIS-VERSAMELING / ZIHLOBO YA-MICHAELIS COLLECTION
The Friends of the Michaelis Collection, was established in 1993.
Its objective is to stimulate active interest in the Collection and the Iziko Old Town House, the Museum dedicated to it.
Exciting Revelation in
the Michaelis Collection
The portrait of Theodorus Bas Jacobi, recently confirmed as
being painted by Jacob Adriaensz Backer.
The painter Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608-1651), one
of Rembrandt’s more illustrious competitors in
17th-century Amsterdam, was a sought-after and highly
fashionable artist in his own day. However, history was
not kind to him. Eclipsed by the decline in interest in
Dutch painting in the 18th century, and the stellar rise
to fame of Rembrandt in the mid-19th century, Backer
Drawing after Jacob Backer’s portrait of Theodorus Bas
Jacobi by Jan Thopas, c. 1630s. Black chalk on vellum, Jan
Six Fine Art, Amsterdam.
has only very recently re-entered the limelight. This after
nearly 400 years of obscurity. His re-emergence
is the result of the first-ever major exhibition of his
works. Entitled Jacob Backer: Rembrandt’s Opposite, the
exhibition was mounted in 2008 - 2009 at Amsterdam’s
Rembrandt House Museum and Aachen’s Suermondt-
Ludwig-Museum. About 120 of Backer’s paintings are

Banner proclaiming the Backer exhibition at Rembrandt House, (above, left); details of the face (above, right) and right hand
holding gloves (below, left). Backer’s refined and elegant style is much in evidence.
known to have survived. After centuries shrouded
in mystery, a male portrait in the Michaelis Collection
has now been identified as a genuine Backer.
Our painting (left), identified for centuries as
Portrait of Man by an “unknown artist”, was included
in the impressive gift of Dutch and Flemish paintings
presented to South Africa by Sir Max Michaelis in
1914. Originally oval in shape, the painting had
been subjected to relining in the 19th century and
reconfigured as a portrait-format rectangle. Until 2011
the painting’s authorship has been disputed and
unresolved; some scholars attributing it to Johannes
Verspronck and others only tentatively to Backer,
although the latter opinion was at one time dismissed.
It was also proposed, because of its refined and elegant
style, that the painting was by a Flemish painter and not
even Dutch at all.
Peter van den Brink, one of the four curators
behind the recent Backer exhibition, has now finally
attributed the Michaelis Collection portrait to the artist.
He has also identified its bearded sitter as Theodorus
Bas Jacobi, a well-to-do resident of Amsterdam in the
mid-to-late 1630s. These revelations have been made
possible by the discovery of a copy of the portrait made
in black chalk made by the artist Jan Thopas (right).
This drawing surfaced on the Dutch art market in 1997,
and is now owned by Jan Six Fine Art, a famous Old
Master dealership in Amsterdam. Examinations of closeup
photographs of the face and hand of our painting
have now convinced Van den Brink, now expertlyacquainted
with many of Backer’s best works, that our
painting is indeed by the artist himself. From the little
that we know about Backer from the archives, he seems
to have been a stylish gentleman who contrasted in
almost every respect with Rembrandt. He was respected
by everyone; he never married, he never bought a house,
and he never became embroiled in legal squabbles. The
firm attribution of a very fine Old Master painting in
the Michaelis Collection to him is truly something
to celebrate. Jacob Backer is a new and exciting art
historical discovery who was clearly one of the most
accomplished painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
by Hayden Proud, Curator of the Michaelis Collection. n

Michaelis Collection Receives
Eminent Visitor
(From left) Dr Mariët Westermann, curator Hayden Proud and conservator Angela Zehnder.
Dr Mariët Westermann, former Director of the
Institute of Fine Arts in New York, a renowned
scholar of 17th-century Dutch art and present Vice-
President of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, was
welcomed at the Old Town House and the Iziko
Michaelis Collection this past March. It was her
first-ever visit to South Africa, and the Michaelis
Collection was on the top of her list of places to
visit in Cape Town. Her keen eye was especially
taken by our fine painting by Jan Steen (1626-1679)
which she already knew well from reproductions.
Jan Steen’s work was the focus of her PhD at New
York University, which culminated in her publication
entitled The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting
in the Seventeenth Century. Dr Westermann is the
the author of one of the most widely-read books on
Dutch painting: A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic,
1585-1718, which has been published in many
editions. Her distinctions as a curator include Art and
Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt (Denver
and Newark Art Museums) and she was also the
co-curator with Alejandro Vergara of the successful
exhibition Vermeer and the Dutch Interior at the Prado
in Madrid. Dr Westermann was keen to learn more
about the Dutch and Flemish works in the collection
of the Iziko South African National Gallery and
also visited our conservation studio to see work in
progress being undertaken by Angela Zehnder.

OLD MASTER MEETS
YOUNG MASTER
A heartwarming film entitled Anathi Tyawa: A Painter
from Khayelitsha (2011), made by Lena Boda, can now
be viewed free of charge in the Frans Hals Room at the
Old Town House/Iziko Michaelis Collection. Anathi has
been a student at the Frank Joubert Art Centre in Rondebosch
and has also been nurtured in his studies via the
Ibhabhathane (“Butterfly” in Xhosa) Project . Through
them he was introduced to the complexities and unique
possibilities of oil paint as a medium of painterly expression.
The expense of imported oil colours has tended
to render them out of reach for many aspirant artists
from disadvantaged communities. The film shows
how Anathi has related to the oil paintings in the Iziko
Michaelis Collection, how he feels about the Collection,
as well as the reactions of his own community to his
dream of becoming an artist. The film can be viewed in
the context of the original Portrait of a Woman by Frans
Hals, dated 1644, which inspired Anathi’s own reworked
version, which he has made into an affectionate portrait
of his mother. Our special thanks to Colin Stevens of the
Ibhabathane Project for presenting a copy of this film to
the Iziko Michaelis Collection.
The Friends of the
Michaelis Collection
warmly welcome
the following new
corporate members
FURNITURE
CONSERVATION
PROJECT
Much-needed conservation work on the furniture in
the Michaelis Collection is about to be be undertaken,
thanks to a generous injection of R10,000.00 to launch
this process by the Friends. It is hoped that a small
number of items can be treated each year. The Friends
generously supported the restoration of a major item -
a 17th-century cupboard some years ago. Iziko Social
History will also be treating certain items that the
Michaelis Collection has on loan.

Visiting Czech musician Edita Keglerova from Prague at the harpsichord.
TWO “STARRY NIGHTS” AT THE
IZIKO OLD TOWN HOUSE
Two special evenings of chamber music concerts arranged
by the Friends of the Michaelis Collection recently
attracted capacity audiences at the Old Town House.
For young and old alike, the venue is growing in popularity
among music-lovers in Cape Town for the quality
of the programmes and the calibre of the performers that
are playing there, thanks to the initiatives of members of
the Friends’ Council.
Two visiting international stars were ably supported
by several local musicians in programmes of the highlycomplex
yet delightful counterpoint compositions
from the very same period – the Baroque era of the
1600s - when the paintings in the Michaelis Collection
were made. The Czech harpsichordist Edita Keglerova
from Prague was the star of the first concert, which was
sponsored by the Czech Embassy in South Africa. She
played on an elaborate harpsichord which was a literal
work of art in itself, built here in Cape Town by a Dutchborn
craftsman. The second concert featured Antoinette
Lohmann, the famous Dutch violinist from Amsterdam,
whose visit was sponsored by the Van Ewijck Foundation.
Lohmann played using an antique violin and a
viola that have both survived from the very same period.

NOTICE OF 18 th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
TO BE HELD AT THE IZIKO OLD TOWN HOUSE
ON SATURDAY 01 OCTOBER 2011 AT 14h30 (2:30 pm)
1 Opening
2 Apologies
AGENDA
3 Minutes of Annual General Meeting held on 01 September 2010.
4 Presentation of Accounts for the Financial Year ended 31 March 2011
5 Annual Report of the Chairperson for the year ended 31 March 2011
6 Ratification of Council Members *
7 Any other business
8 Closing
9
AGM 2011
10 Tea and refreshments will be served after the lecture
n To assist with seating and catering, please RSVP by Wednesday 28 September 2011
colin@worker.com. Office Tel (09:00 - 14:00) Fax 021 683 1297, Cell/SMS 083 713 5498
* See proxy form on page 12
Illustrated lecture
The 17th-century
Dutch Interior :
fact or fantasy?
by Hayden Proud
Curator : Michaelis Collection at
the Iziko Old Town House.

Introduction
The year 2010/11 has not in every
respect been an entirely satisfactory
one for the Friends of the Michaelis
Collection. By the same token,
five months later, your Committee
can report signs both of renewed
activity by the Committee itself and
of interest and participation from
the side of the public.
The slump in activity by and for
the Friends last year undoubtedly
had to do with the fact that the
Permanent Collection, the oldmaster
paintings that form the
raison-d’être of the museum in the
Old Town House, were not on
its walls at all for most of the year.
This was the result of the decision
by Iziko – since some ten years ago our over-arching
mother institution – to use all its halls for two temporary
exhibitions, The Lie of the Land (featuring landscape art
and curated by Prof. Michael Godby) and Home and
Away (art of a political nature, curated by Carol Brown).
Both exhibitions were of undoubted interest. To the
funding of the first-mentioned the Friends in fact made
a substantial contribution, and for the other one they
organized a walk-about by its curator. But the prolonged
absence of the Permanent Collection caused much
concern among our local support group – as well as
dismay from the side of many visitors from elsewhere.
In subsequent discussions with the Iziko management,
it was agreed that such special, temporary exhibitions
should remain the exception, rather than the rule, and
that such exhibitions should not necessitate the removal
of the entire Permanent Collection.
Activities
FRIENDS OF THE MICHAELIS COLLECTION
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
Despite this temporary set-back, activities continued
to be held in the Old Town House, altough a few had
to cancelled because of a lack of interest. Among those
that were successful were three walk-abouts of the
two special exhibitions, two most informative lectures
(on artist/architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser by
Truida Pekel, and on the Seasons in Medieval Miniature
Painting by Tia Hugo), and a “Rehanging Party” to
celebrate the return of the paintings of the Permanent
Collection, as rehung most inventively by curator
Hayden Proud under the title “Baroque meets Modern”.
1 APRIL 2010 – 31 MARCH 2011
FMC Chairman Dr. Hans Fransen.
Educational programmes
are always on-going, and were
especially intensive during the
Lie of the Land exhibition, when
learners as well as teachers were
targeted with the cooperation
of the Ibhabhathane Project, the
Joan St. Leger Lindbergh Trust,
the National Arts Council and the
West. Cape Department of Cultural
Affairs and Sport.
Other supportive activities
Although the Friends always try to
keep a substantial financial nestegg
in order to be in a position to
support larger projects, they have
been able to contribute to several
meaningful causes related to the
museum and its activities and
interests. They funded part of the cost of the catalogue
of the exhibition The Lie of the Land by Prof. Michael
Godby, thereby demonstrating that they do support
special, temporary exhibitions. They also financed the
restoration of the bust of Sir Max Michaelis by Moses
Kottler over the fountain in the courtyard.
The Iziko Old Town House
After quite a protracted period of renovations, the
Old Town House is once again in prime condition.
Damp problems in the left lower anteroom were
dealt with, disabled access was improved by the
installation of a lift (no easy job in the heart of an old
building!), by removing the steps in the Burg Street
entrance to the Courtyard, and by a handrail on the
steps in front. Lighting and ultra-violet protection
were much improved upstairs. Regrettably, we were
informed that fire regulations prevent the presence of
more than twenty-five persons upstairs at any given
time. This rules out the use of the spendid panelled
Frans Hals Room, reputed to have the best chambermusic
accoustics in the City. Still to be satisfactorily
resolved is the problem with the stair-well dome, so
that paintings can be hung there. The Friends have
also expressed their desire to see the Print Room reinstalled
where, until the incorporation of the Museum
in the Iziko group, a permanent display could be seen,
in specially designed cabinets, of thematic selections
from the superb holdings of works on paper, including
dozens of Rembrandt etchings.

The main room upstairs in The Old Townhouse, with paintings and sculpture on display in the Frans Hals room during Michael
Godby’s The Lie of the Land exhibition in 2010.
Acknowledgements
This report would be incomplete without acknowledging
the assistance of a number of people. Since its inception
seventeen years ago, the Friends have been blessed with
a sterling Committee. Without its indefatigable Secretary,
Colin Stevens, the Friends would simply not have been
able to function at all. Tony Fagrew has kept a close rein
on our finances. And Helen Binckes, Shirley Kellner
and Barnaba Golek helped in many different ways,
as ‘”front-of-the-house”, refreshment manager or barkeeper.
During the year Liesl Hartman, Principal of the
Frank Joubert Art Centre accepted our invitation to join
the committee.
From the side of Iziko, we have maintained an
excellent working relationship with the Curator of
Historical Art, Hayden Proud, in whose concerns the
Michaelis Collection occupies a very special place and
whose attendance at our Committee meetings is much
appreciated. We also value the interest by Iziko’s new
Chief Executive Officer, Rooksana Omar, and its Director
of Art Collections, Riason Naidoo.
To the security staff of the Old Town House,
especially Barbara Hendricks, we owe a vote of thanks
for their willing assistance after-hours during our
special events. Last but not least I must commend
Beulah Lombard, owner/manager of the Scotch
Coffee Shop garden restaurant, for the good cheer
and excellent service she provides, and for the loving
care she lavishes on the flower and herb beds in the
courtyard. Thank you all for contributing to making the
Michaelis Collection in the Old Town House not just an
interesting museum, but also a very pleasant place to
visit.
Future
After a fairly quiet period late last year the Friends,
during the months following the year covered by this
report, are showing signs not only of renewed activity,
but also of unprecedented support by the public. The
concerts presented since then have been over-subscribed,
and several educational activities are being planned. The
Friends, in cooperation with Iziko, are also planning the
publication of a new brochure/catalogue to replace the
1995 book that has long been out of print. To achieve all
this, however, the Committee needs to expand its private
and corporate membership – as well as strengthen its
own ranks.
Thank you.
Dr. Hans Fransen
Chairman

NEWS & ACTIVITIES
FOR FRIENDS &
THEIR FRIENDS
Please note dates and events scheduled for
Friends of the Michaelis Collection and their
friends too. Please notice that some events have
limited numbers. It is therefore absolutely necessary
that you respond and say you will be attending,
so that we know when to close the bookings.
You may book your place by telephone, fax, email
or SMS. Please make sure that you mention your
name, & best telephone number.
n SATURDAY 01 OCTOBER 2011
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Saturday @ 14:30
Admission : No charge – RSVP appreciated.
See page 6 for agenda and lecture details.
n WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER 2011
VISIT TO RUTH PROWSE
SCHOOL OF ART, Woodstock
Wednesday @ 10h30. Admission : R30.00
Booking essential only 20 places available.
Our members are invited to a visit to the well-known
art centre started some forty years ago as a result of
the munificence of the painter Ruth Prowse (one-time
Curator of the Michaelis Collection!). She bequeathed her
picturesque thatched and gabled cottage in Woodstock
– once the old farm Roodebloem – for the purpose of
establishing an art centre. For over twenty years it was
run by our former committee member Erik Laubscher.
The principal, Eunice Geustyn, will accompany us
through the various studios, and Dr Hans Fransen will
tell us about the highly interesting architecture of the old
farmhouse. The complex can be reached from Main Road,
Woodstock, on the mountain side right opposite oblique
Salt River Road, up short Birkdale Road straight into its
main gate.
n As visitors’ numbers are limited to 20, booking is
essential. Tea and coffee will be served at 10h30. Parking
should be available in the grounds or the streets nearby.
n FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 2011
MUSIC FROM THE GOLDEN
AGE III
Friday @ 17h30 at The Iziko Old Town House,
Greenmarket Square
Admission : R75.00 (friends); R90 non-members; R45
students. Booking essential only 60 seats available.
Andrew Cruickshank (harpsichord) and Hans Huyssen
(cello), together with Charles Ainslie (bass-baritone) and
Nick de Jager (tenor) in works by Storace, Frescobaldi,
Bach, Couperin, and Royer. The third in our series of
concerts of chamber music from the Golden Age – the
Baroque Age of the paintings of our collection and of The
Iziko Old Town House itself. This time we are happy to
present two of the splendid musicians whom we heard
in the previous concert – this time accompanying two
welcome guest artists.
n Telephone Liz Ellenbogen on 021 683 2720 between
09h00 and 14h00 Monday to Friday, excepting school
holidays. Email teachart@frankjoubertartcentre.co.za;
colin@worker.com; SMS 083 713 5498; or write to PO Box
15 194, Vlaeberg 8018, Fax 021 683 1297.

Chanesse with blue dressing gown (1999) by Clare Menck, and Gallant Conversation
(c 1654) Gerard ter Borch, Louvre, Paris.
CLARE MENCK: INVITED ARTIST AT
IZIKO OLD TOWN HOUSE
An artist’s residency programme is about to be inaugurated at the Michaelis
Collection. Over the month of November the painter Clare Menck will be setting
up studio at the Iziko Old Town House. Menck’s devotion to the Dutch masters
is evident in much of her work, and she has sought out the work of Gerard ter
Borch, Johannes Vermeer, Carel Fabritius and Pieter de Hooch in her sojourns
of study abroad. During her residency, Menck will initiate further “painterly”
conversations with the Old Masters in the Michaelis Collection and with the
wonderful building that contains it. Members of the Friends are encouraged
to pay the artist a visit while she is at work. Parallel to Menck’s residency will
be a major mid-career retrospective of her work entitled Hidden Life / Verborge
Lewe at the Sanlam Art Gallery in Bellville. The exhibition is accompanied by a
substantial catalogue. The Friends will be arranging events around her residency
at the Iziko Old Town House and a special tour of her exhibition in Bellville.
Dates of residency:
Monday 31 October – Saturday 5 November 2011
Monday 14 November – Saturday 19 November 2011
n Dates and booking details of events and a special guided tour of Hidden Life /
Verborge Lewe at the Sanlam Art Gallery will be announced in due course.
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The Girl with a Pearl Earring (c1665) by Johannes Vermeer, Mauritshuis,
The Hague.
CELEBRATING
PETER CLARKE
The Friends extend warmest
congratulations to former FMC
Council member Peter Clarke
on the occasion of his major
retrospective at the Iziko South
African National Gallery from
October 20. The exhibition,
entitled Listening to Distant
Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke, is
curated by Elizabeth Rankin and
Philippa Hobbs. Is is the result
of seven years of research on the
artist and is accompanied by a
lavish and beautiful book. It will
run until mid-February 2012 and
promises to be the exhibition
highlight of the summer season.
Photo : Russell Scott, 2011.

Clare Menck: Hidden Life
Twenty years of painting (1990 - 2010)
Sanlam Art Gallery
26 October 2011 - 9 December 2011
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 16:30
Sanlam, 2 Strand Road, Bellville
Inquiries: 021 947 3359
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MEMBERS
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given up a lot of time and gone to a lot of trouble
to promote our society and the wonderful Gallery
and Collection. Now is the time to introduce new
committee members – younger and with wider and
more contemporary interests. Please mention this
to lively, young people that you know.
Present committee: Dr Hans Fransen (Chairman),
Colin Stevens (Secretary), Tony Fagrew (Treasurer),
Helen Binckes, Barnaba Golek, Liesl Hartman,
Shirley Kellner.
HOUSE NOTES:
n There is wheelchair access to the garden,
building & lift via Burg Street.
n A handrail has been provided for people using
the front entrance steps.
n The Iziko Old Town House Museum is open
from 10:00 – 17:00, Monday – Saturday.
n Entrance to the Iziko Old Town House Museum
is free for people of 18 years and younger, R10 for
people over the age of 18 years. There is no charge
for Friends of the Michaelis Collection.
n Iziko Museums: Telephone 021 481 3933
n Beulah’s Scotch Coffee House in the Garden:
Telephone 021 423 0322
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Michaelis Collection, do hereby appoint the Chairman or
……………………………………………….
who is a paid up member of the FMC, as proxy to vote and speak on my behalf at the Annual
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This fascinating postcard image of the Iziko Old Town
House was taken by the well-known American photgrapher
Arthur Elliot, now famous for his images of life at
the Cape in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is stamped
“Union of South Africa” which possibly suggests that
the image dates from 1910 or immediately thereafter.
Judging from the configuration of the central archway
on the portico, it is certainly an image of our building
taken just before the massive renovations and alterations
carried out between 1913 and 1916 to transform it
into Cape Town’s equivalent of the Mauritshuis in The
Hague. The building as we know, was formally handed
over to the Union Government by the City of Cape
Town in 1913 to be transformed into a suitable home for
the Michaelis Collection. Of further interest to note is the
colour of the building, which is slightly darker than the
others adjoining it.
Official reports written by the Public Works Department
on the condition of the building at this time, which are
THE WAY WE WERE
to be found in the Cape Archives, remind us that the
building had a wooden roof and wooden floors throughout,
and that all of these fixtures were either rotting or in
a poor state of repair. The building was in fact a tinderbox
that was a major fire-risk and entirely unsuitable
as a repository for a major collection of valuable Old
Masters. The conversion of the building thus involved
some major engineering; the roof and first floor being
replaced with fire-resistant concrete, while the ground
floor was covered with marble. Huge logs of teak were
also imported to be used to build a new stairwell and
line the former Council chamber upstairs - what was to
become known as the Frans Hals Room. The Iziko Old
Town House as we know it today was last subjected to
a major restoration in 2003, and hopes are that a renovation
of stairwell - a work of art in itself - will soon be underway.
We hope to publish further images of the Iziko
Old Town House in future. If you know of any other
early photographs of the building, we would be pleased
to hear from you.
Visit Beulah’s Scotch Coffee House
at the Iziko Old Town House
Breakfast, lunches, tea coffee and confectionery
Open during Museum hours Entrance from Burg Street.
Telephone Beulah on 021 423 0322

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