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30-582: The Pretoria Art Museum was established to house the City Council of Pretoria's Art Collection, built up since the 1930s. The collection received an early windfall in 1932 when Lady Michaelis bequeathed a large number of artworks to the city council after the death of her husband, Sir Max Michaelis . The collection consisted mainly of 17th-century work of the "North Dutch school" ,. South African works included pieces by Henk Pierneef , Pieter Wenning , Frans Oerder , Anton van Wouw and Irma Stern . The collection

60-475: A goldsmith of London, whose interest became assigned by mortgage (and default of payment) to Richard Bostock, who died without heirs. The manor became known by the name which it has since borne, Tandridge Court, to distinguish it from the manor of Tandridge Priory which had also become the property of Richard Bostock in the early 17th century. He left it to nephew Bostock Fuller, justice of the peace of Surrey who died in 1626. William Clayton, nephew and heir to

90-649: A grand civic reception for 2,000 guests was given in his honour. They went on to have two children, Cecil and Iris Michaelis. In 1913 he had presented a collection of Dutch and Flemish old masters to the Union government, a gift leading to his being knighted. These formed the basis of the Michaelis Collection and were housed in the Old Town House in Cape Town. The decision to house the collection in Cape Town, came in for

120-608: A great deal of criticism – public sentiment at the time was that the money had originated from the Reef gold mines and that the collection belonged in Johannesburg. Besides, a lot of the works were regarded as being of indifferent quality ( Portrait of a Woman by Frans Hals being the cynosure of the collection) and there was at least one painting of questionable attribution. These works had been collected by Lady Phillips (wife of Sir Lionel Phillips , Bt) and Sir Hugh Lane . In June 1920 at

150-696: A lifetime. He was co-opted by Wernher to deal in diamonds for Porges and Wernher, and in the 1880s restructured the Cape Diamond Company. He was a founding partner of Wernher, Beit & Co. Within some years he had become manager of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation in Johannesburg . From 1896 he worked at the corporation's offices in London and remained there until 1919, when he returned to South Africa. In England he led an extremely secluded life on

180-572: A long, thin parish south of the ridge towards Lingfield and Burstow . The north of this ridge close to the church is Beechwood Hill , at 160 metres above sea level, the 23rd highest hill in the county. The ridge is part of the Greensand Ridge which is patchy in Tandridge, the middle of its extent from the West Sussex/Hampshire border to South-East Kent. Only one named hamlet is within

210-492: A rare example of timber construction, and one of the earliest of its class in Surrey, dating, in fact, from the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century. In the churchyard are tombs/headstones/vaults to The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to

240-471: Is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge District , in the county of Surrey , England. Its nucleus is on a rise of the Greensand Ridge between Oxted and Godstone . It includes, towards its middle one named sub-locality ( hamlet ), Crowhurst Lane End . In 2011 the parish had a population of 663 and the district had a population of 82,998. In landmarks it has one of the oldest yew trees in

270-460: Is denoted what was the far south of the parish, near Hedgecourt (in Felbridge) , showing that an iron forge stood there or had once done so. In 1912 the parish was "chiefly agricultural, but there [we]re brick and tile works in it." A clustered village partly surrounded by its own steep woodland otherwise by fields, the parish is largely on the lowest land of a noticeable ridge. It stretches as

300-517: The Crown and other overlords whenever rights or lands of manors were in a significant way parted with) include Tenrige; Tanerig, Tanerigge, Tanrich, Tenrig and Tenrugge in the Middle Ages . Godstone until the 19th century cut off a detached part, Tillingdon, which lay between Godstone and Caterham and became part of the latter community. This small house of Austin canons was founded, Tandridge Priory in

330-756: The Montebello estate in Newlands. Before his death in 1996, his son Cecil Michaelis , the artist, resenting government expropriation of the estate, donated Montebello to the University of Cape Town on condition the estate was used to promote design – this is now known as the Montebello Design Centre and the old residence as Michaelis House, the junior boarding house of the South African College Schools . Tandridge, Surrey Tandridge

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360-502: The childhood prize of wealth in the country Anne de Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick . Due to the Cousins' Wars she became widow of Warwick the king-maker and was finally compelled to convey her enormous estates to Henry VII . In 1499 George Puttenham, who was afterwards knighted, was lord of the manor , as which he held courts in 1509 and 1527. He was succeeded at his death by his son Robert, who sold Tandridge in 1542 to John Cooke,

390-501: The country estate, Tandridge Court in Surrey. Unlike the other Randlords, he was not given to lavish entertaining and spending, avoided the press, did not have an opulent London mansion and despite desiring a baronetcy, was not socially ambitious. With the outbreak of World War I and the anti-German hysteria that gripped England, Michaelis acted on a suggestion by General Smuts that he return to South Africa. Max Michaelis and his wife arrived in Cape Town in 1919. In December of that year

420-415: The country, a Grade I-listed church and the tomb of the church's main benefactor Sir George Gilbert Scott 's wife, Lady Scott who lived in the parish. The village is acknowledged locally for its friendly atmosphere and sense of community. There is active use of the village hall from the annual Christmas show to many parties and social events. The Village fete and Bonfire events are well attended and add to

450-473: The creation of secretion of an open area between the entrance and the East Gallery. It was constructed in 1988 and again in 1999 upgraded. In the latter case in preparation for the international exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: scientist, inventor, artist. An image Garden is also on the stage, was added to the museum. Max Michaelis Sir Maximillian Michaelis , KCMG (11 May 1852 – 26 January 1932)

480-548: The death of Max Michaelis, presented large collections of art to the National Art Gallery in Cape Town and to Pretoria, with further gifts to the Michaelis Collection in Cape Town. She was also the founder of the Lady Michaelis Orthopaedic Home in Cape Town. Moses Kottler created a bronze bust of Sir Max, which was placed in the garden of the Old Town House in Cape Town. In 1920, Max Michaelis acquired

510-631: The division of his lands between his sisters and co-heirs: Eleanor wife of Hugh Despenser the Younger succeeded to the knights' fees belonging to (i.e. flowing yearly from) the manor. Tandridge's overlords remained (granting long tenancies of the manor) the Despensers and their descendants, the Beauchamps, thus over a century later, with mass property accumulation by holders of the Earldom of Warwick, it settled on

540-443: The latter with Priory Farm (perhaps thus really only the latter) to Robert Graeme, his steward, and his heirs in return for the valuable services rendered by Graeme and because he had relinquished the profession for which he had been educated to become his steward. In 1817 Robert Graeme and Mary his wife conveyed the manor to Charles Hampden-Turner, in whose family it remained in 1912. In John Rocque 's map of 1761 'Woodcock's Hammer'

570-451: The manor at Bletchingley bought this supplemental manor in 1712 from Francis Fuller, he started a line of Clayton baronets by royal favour and the property was described as sold 'lately' by Sir William Robert Clayton to Walpole Greenwell , in 1912. Tandridge Court was rebuilt in the 20th century and is not a listed building . Sir Robert Clayton who owned the manor and the Priory granted

600-615: The mid-1990s, the New Signatures competition is also held at the Pretoria Art Museum. The Pretoria City Council in 1954 decided that a building was needed to house the art collection. The firm of architects Burg, Lodge and Burg and W.G. McIntosh and the builder J. Zylstra (Pty) Ltd was appointed. The curator of the Johannesburg Art Museum, Anton Hendriks in an advisory capacity, and the city clerk of Pretoria, Henry Preiss,

630-412: The modern International Style design and technical innovations feasible at that time were used. The museum was officially inaugurated on 20 May 1964 by the new mayor of Pretoria, Dr PJ van der Walt. The first curator of the new Pretoria Art Museum, Dr. Albert Werth, was appointed early in 1963 and until his retirement in 1991 was director of the art museum. Additional exhibit space was created in 1975 with

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660-419: The parish bounds, Crowhurst Lane End, approximately midway between the cluster of almost all of the homes of villagers who are not smallholders or large-scale farmers, and the centre of Crowhurst, Surrey . A footpath connects the village to the latter village and it is served by the local roads. In the churchyard of Tandridge church is an ancient yew tree , of a size to indicate it is over 1,500 years old. It

690-598: The sense of village community. The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon Tandridge hundred . Tandridge appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Tenrige . It was held by the wife of Salie from Richard Fitz Gilbert . Its domesday assets were: 2 hides ; 1 mill worth 4s 2d, 14 ploughs , 5 acres (2.0 ha) of meadow , woodland and herbage worth 51 hogs . It rendered £11 per year to its feudal overlords. Variant spellings such as in feet of fines (levied by

720-455: The time of Richard I of England . At Henry VIII 's Dissolution of the monasteries it had possessions valued at £86. 7. 6. per annum. In the grounds of the priory are the lids of two stone coffins dug up here. In 1828 some silver and copper coins of Julius Caesar and other Roman emperors were found. Until about 1610 the property was held as part of the manor, but has since been owned separately. Gilbert de Clare died in 1314 which triggered

750-677: The urging of Lady Phillips, he endowed the chair of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and in return was rewarded with an honorary LL.D. The school now bears his name, the Michaelis School of Fine Art . He also donated a large number of art works to museums in Kimberley and Johannesburg. In 1924 a knighthood was conferred on Max Michaelis. He died of cancer at Bellariastraße 7 in Zürich on 26 January 1932. Lady Michaelis, who returned to England on

780-603: Was a South African financier, mining magnate, benefactor and patron of the arts. He received his early schooling in Nuremberg . Michaelis first arrived in South Africa in 1876 when he landed at Port Elizabeth . Two years later he had moved to Kimberley , drawn by the 1871 discovery of diamonds and the prospect of wealth. Here he became a close business associate of Julius Wernher and Alfred Beit and got to know Hermann Eckstein and Jim B. Taylor – friendships that were to last

810-416: Was greater emphasis on contemporary South African art and building a more representative historical collection also traditional arts and new-media. After the death of the sculptor Lucas Sithole 1994, half of his unfinished work by Haenggi Foundation was donated to the museum after documented by art historian Elza Miles. The South African collection now includes work by Gerard Sekoto and Judith Mason . Since

840-400: Was measured as 32.5 feet (9.9 m) in 1912, quite hollow but "full of life with four great limbs above about four feet in height". St. Peter's Church, although surrounded by trees, occupies an elevated and prominent position in the parish. The nave is much of the late 11th century, with a wall and carved priest's door in the north of the chancel of the same date. The tower and spire form

870-531: Was originally housed in the Town Hall. As South African museums in Cape Town and Johannesburg already had good collections of 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century European art, it was decided to focus on compiling a representative collection of South African art. Aside from these artists, work by Pieter Hugo Naudé , Maggie Laubser and others was acquired. The purchase of international work was focused on more affordable graphics prints from Europe and USA. More recently there

900-450: Was the driving force behind the project; in 1956 he was on holiday in Europe on tour, where he studied art museums studied. Building began on 26 January 1962 and the cornerstone was laid on 19 October 1962 by the then Prime Minister Dr HF Verwoerd and the mayor of Pretoria, Councillor E. Smith. The building of concrete and glass was completed over 18 months at a cost of R400,000. The design in

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