Frans Oerder
Frederik Jacobus Bezuidenhout's Farm, Bezuidenhout Valley
About this Item
South African 1867-1944
Frederik Jacobus Bezuidenhout's Farm, Bezuidenhout Valley
signed
oil on canvas
48,5 by 95cm excluding frame
Notes
Executed circa 1898.
On 20 September 1861, Frederik Jacobus Bezuidenhout purchased this farm from the widow of the original owner, B.P. Viljoen, and gave his name to the area. Now a large residential suburb of Johannesburg it lies between the long hill known as Observatory on the north and the Kensington ridge on the south. The homestead with its row of walnut trees was at the foot of the valley near Gillooley's Farm.
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