A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… exhibitions in the Drill Hall on Darling Street. At this time they were the largest exhibitions ever held in the Cape … over 20,000 submissions. "I hope," he said, "that the time may come when this Society will have to do the same … pristine and undeveloped this area of Cape Town was at the time. It was a small port-city of 100,000 people. However, by …