The 'Schaap Post' (Riversdale)

Provenance

Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone.

Late Estate Viscountess Dorothy Mary Gladstone.

Private Collection, Pretoria, 1941 and thence by decent.

The DinksFãStan Private Collection, United Kingdom.

Notes

'Volschenk approached the task of celebrating his home landscape without theory or polemic. His aim was purely to record the information offered by his eyes. Structural design, as such, did not concern him. The composition of his paintings was established by the view itself. His faithful descriptions read like random snapshots filtered through a rose-tinted lens. As his skill for rending the effect of light grew, he increasingly romanticising his portrayals.'

Esmé Berman (1983) Art & Artists of South Africa: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary and Historical Survey of Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists since 1875. Cape Town: Southern Book Publishers, page 478.