VALUABLE PAINTING LOST
STRATFORD-ON-AVON TOWN HALL ON FIRE (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 5. _ A Gainsborough valued at £40,000 is believed to be among treasures lost in a fire which early yesterday badly damaged the Svratford-on-Avon Town Hall. The town hall at. Stratford-on-Avon was rebuilt by David Garrick in 1769. The Gainsborough was a painting of Garrick with his arm round the bust of Shakespeare. The Town Hall contained other valuable pictures, including a painting of Shakespeare by Benjamin Wilson, dated 1769. Firemen salvaged the town’s ancient charter and mace and Garrick’s walking stick. A later ihessage says the Gainsborough in the Stratford fire was completely' destroyed. An art expert said the picture was the most_famous of five which Gainsborough painted of Garrick. It was painted at Bath in 1765, and was about 10 feet high by four feet.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 48, 6 December 1946, Page 3
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