PURCHASES FOR CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12647, 10 November 1906, Page 11

PURCHASES FOR CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY.

Tlie Canterbury Art Society having raised a cnsiee'-ab!.- sum of money by a, sp.-cial i.s.-.iie of debentures, has been enabled to purchase several valuable pictures trom tbe splendid British collection iv the Art Gallon- at tlie Exhibition. They include No. 192. -Psyche." by Solomon J. Salomon, R.A.. in the opinion of experts the finrvt. rwmpV of tleedi-painting in the collection; No. 111. "Teresina," a b'-aiiTiful 'little portrait of an Italian .-ii-l l.v tbe late* Lord Leighton*. No. IP2. liur-v Kemp-Welch's powerful and i-lvir-Ktoristic ".Sunlight through the Lca-.-es.** which Tcrrfsont.-i an old white irate with hor foal standing in the. dappled -shade of a tree; and No. 173. Henrietta Rao's "Doubts." ft good ••-ii'b-rv"' piiture, which shows "an iiui-ouuo be-itating to accept the propiwii of a tone." In addition t,o these, tbo purchase of No. 172. "A Sunny Afternoon." by lb rtrani rric-stman. a picture of cattle cro-*ing a little -Meani. has been practical'y concluded, rtiid «i Chri.st.hnr.li ro.-id.nt luxs offered to take up debentures to a certain amount if tiie n.-uv y is ttpont in bnyiii"- G. D- bvuituul decorative "eauva.s -The Wizard* Garden.*' Tiie Society bas abo Ixiught "Tbe Agje oi Innoc-vni'**.." « ehnrminif l-ronz-e bust by Alfred Drury, A.It.A. A private

lover of art h.iy_ teen red No. 70, "Sympat it. ' by H. B. Gore, H.8.A., w,,:c?i cep.ct.-. a litilo gul kntvling apiiiirt* a chair and piercing her law again-: s\ j>.'_ t-eirier. Till* wi.l no donor Ik* S.vu.l .liiio ior any sjecial exhibition in the local Art (.■;!.lery. It is hard y luce s_.iy to a<ld the Society will be* j;la<l to -ecii'e otiior works lor itpad* iv if ait fat ron- in Chr._tcliurch wiii lu.ni-li the reriuit-ite funds. opportunity for buying good pict-.i:.'-. at ci-iiii>arativeiy iow prices u-an unir-ue ono, and in tlie intere-st- oi ait tno. Iml.»t advantage snould be taken of .t.