Her Wikipedia article is here. Her article includes the following, "After resettling in Johannesburg, she started acquiring paintings with a view to eventually founding an art gallery, which after many difficulties took shape as the Johannesburg Art Gallery. She played a leading role in projects aimed at cultivating and preserving the local artistic heritage. She persuaded Sir Max Michaelis to donate his considerable collection of 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings to the city of Cape Town. She headed a movement to preserve and restore the Koopmans-De Wet House in Cape Town and was an enthusiastic collector of Africana furniture, both for her own home and public institutions. She was instrumental, with Prof. G.E. Pearse, in establishing a Faculty of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand."
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ca. 1555 Caterina de' Medici by ? (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)
1900s fashion at a grand ball in Vienna
1894 Condesa de Santiago by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (private collection)
1905 Maud Glen Coats, Duchess of Wellington by John Singer Sargent (private collection)
ca. 1910 Florence Phillips by Sir William Nicholson (Johannesburg Art Gallery - Johannesburg, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa)
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