THEFT OF A VALUABLE PICTURE
THE WELLINGTON ART GALLERY BURGLARISED. [press association.] WELLINGTON, to-day. The local art gallery was burgled between 5.30 on Saturday and 2.30 yesterday afternoon, and the famous landscape painting by B. W. Leader, R.A., stolon. The painting, which represented an English landscape, "Southward from Surrey Hills," was on a canvas abo\it 4ft x sft, and was safe when the gallery closed on Saturday. Yesterday the frame was discovered in the ante-room and a dark lantern, jemmy and other burglarious tools lying around. The picture was brought to New Zealand with other English works of art for the recent New Zealand exhibition, and was subsequently purchased by Mrs W. B. Rhodes, of Wellington, for about £600. and presented to the local gallery.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1001, 13 April 1908, Page 5
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125THEFT OF A VALUABLE PICTURE Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1001, 13 April 1908, Page 5
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