NEW PICTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 72, 24 March 1916, Page 6

NEW PICTURES.

FOR MACKELVIE AXD CITYT GALLERIES. ,Two more pictures purchased in London for the trustees of thc'Alaekelvie Art Gallery were unpacked tins morning. These complete the five which were bought with the amount ECt aside for the year, the others being a very hne specimen of Brangwyn's work, a river scene by'Stanton, and a .Somerset farm scene by Parsons. The laTger of the , two latest arrivals is an oil painting by J. R. Weguelin, R.W.S.. a well known name in the Old Country. The subject ie "The Obscquiee of a Cat." As most people are aware, the cat was held in veneration by. the Egyptians, and its sepulture was a matter of much ceremony. Before the altar on which stands the mummified animal there kneels an Egyptian priestess, in an attitude of adoration, offering incense from a censer. Scattered about are the bodies of birds, some flowers and other concomitants of the ceremony. The drawing of the figure, the treatment of the woman's scanty drapery, and the colouring are excellent. The picture will be specially popular with students. Weguelin was born in 1849, and after studying at the Slade School, he was under Poynter for some time. He exhibited many pictures at the Royal Academy, included among the number being the present purchase, which was exhibited in ISBG. Almost all his subjects have been classical. The smaller picture ie an oil, painted on a panel. It is called "The Artist's Daughter," and is by a Paris artist named Charles Arnoud. who has had a lot of his work hung at the Salon. It is a charming little study of a girl hard at work m a corner of an untidy studio before a statue of the Venus of Milo The painting is beautifully soft, and th« studio lighting has been very happily caught. It is an appealing little thin* and will be a distinct gain to tue gallery. By the same mail there also arrived on approval a small painting by the late Sir Alma Tadema—a canvas about 12in !?T r !i I* \ S Ca " cd "CkowiW and a) head study of the dark, voluptuous woman of the type usually associated with tne name. fa » Ct ,*!** % Ijibr *O- Committee of the Auckland City Council has now been authorised to purchase Mr C x ' Woreley's watereolour of Auckland from" below Mount Hobeon will add a vei-r fine work to the City Gallery. Jt ; s all, a picture that will in a few years hay» a considerable historic value. ' Mr Worley i, an admirable draughtsman, and he has made a most faithful drawing o* one t>f the finest viewe of the Waitemata Jte of »hich is changing