C S GROVES - LAKESIDE (Western Cape)
Charles Sydney Groves 1878 - 1964
This stunning oil painting by Charles Sydney Groves depicts Westlake in the Western Cape before it became a residential area. The painting suggests it was painted from a view point near the present Marina Da Gama. The internet has the following information on the artist:
He later taught at the Cape Town School of Art and then as a Senior Lecturer at UCT's Michaelis School of Fine Art, after it opened in 1924. A commission from UCT in 1930 was for the design of a series of windows for Smuts Hall on themes from early colonial histon In 1938 he designed a window with the Coat of Arms of the Union of SA and the emblems of its four provinces for the entrance room of the SA National Gallery. His daughter Mary Groves executed this design. Grove regularly showed with SASA, preferring to enter his landscapes, painted in a delicate Oriental style. He served as a President of SASA from 1928 to 1929, and was also a member of the K Club and EPSAC. He died in Cape Town, 1964.
The painting measures approximately 28 x 38cm in a frame (the frame has several scratches and is not in the best condition) measuring 50 x 40 cm.
The painting is marked with a G at the bottom left and inscribed with the artists name and title on the reverse.
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