GLORY OF ART.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 5, 6 January 1934, Page 9

GLORY OF ART.

New Vision Given by British

Exhibition.

KING LENDS PICTURES.

LONDON", January 5.

The opening display at the art exhibition in Burlington House is calculated to give Britons a new vision of the glory of their national art. The works have taken two years to collect, and are insured for £2,500,000, apart from insurances effected by the owners. One hundred special guards, many of whom are armed, have been engaged to watch them night and day. King George heads the list of lenders. His Majesty has sent 00 objects, of which 16 are important oil paintings, from Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Hampton Court. The display illustrates tho development of all the arts of Britain from Alfred the Great to 1800. Earlier ages are primarily represented hy Gothic sculpture and manuscripts, but there is a superb selection of 18th century portraits from collections of great land lords, many of which have heen in possession of the owners since they were painted. The exhibition includes typical landscapes by Constable and Turner, and characteristic examples of pi'e-Raphael-ites. City companies and University Colleges have made general loans of goldsmithery, embroidery and furniture, the whole constituting a display never likely to be equalled in this generation.