Brushes and Brushware

Academy Brushware was founded in 1953 by an industrious Italian national, Vittorino Meneghelli, seeking new challenges in South Africa to invest his personal knowledge in the brush trade gained from a family business and history spanning several decades. Although being a qualified accountant, the roots from being exposed so long to the family brush trade probably influenced his decision to attempt doing the same in his new surroundings and country. He chose the name Academy Brushware for his newly founded business and used as logo and trademark the well known LION- statue presiding as guard over the priests' palace next to the world famous cathedral in Venice, Italy.