Notes

"The Interior of the Groote Kerk [...] is a technically triumphant painting." Joyce Newton Thompson, page 64

"The Groote Kerk was built essentially as a 'preaching box': the idea was that as many worshipers as possible, seated in their box pews, would have a good view of a centrally located, elevated pulpit constructed with sounding boards that will have helped in the preacher's being heard.  The design of these pulpits often inspired the creation of elaborate structures; the pulpit in the Groote Kerk is a really good example of one.  Here raised on a pedestal of lions it's a triumph of the work of Anton Anreith (1789), a sculptor who began life in the Dutch East India Company's employ as a labourer and who ended up renowned for his accomplished high-baroque style of work."

Paul Duncan and Alain Proust. (2013) Hidden Cape Town, Cape Town: Struik Lifestyle. Page 15.

Literature

Joyce Newton Thompson. (circa 1951) Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Page 64, illustrated between pages 20 and 21.

Victor de Kock. (1960) Ons Erfenis, Our Heritage, Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk. Page 149, illustration number 276.