RECOVERED FROM THE SEA.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19814, 30 December 1929, Page 8

RECOVERED FROM THE SEA.

VALUABLE PAINTINGS. [THE PBBBS Special Senric*.] DUNEDIN, December 29. Mr E. Murray Fuller, who lost many valuable paintings in the wreck of the Manuka, and who has been visiting the vicinity of Long Point in search of any pictures which may have been washed ashore, passed through Dunedin yesterday en route to Wellington. Mr Fuller recovered twelve paintings, which were found mostly by settlers living near the scene of the wreck. The two most important ones, which are valued at 400 guineas each, are by H. H. La Thangue, R.A., and are named "Sussex Meadows'' and "A Provencals Forecourt." These were in fair condition.

Syduev Thompson's "Fountains Grasse." which was in very good order, and his ''Horses' Market, Concarneau.'' which was damaged, were also found.. Mr Fuller thinks that the artist will he able to restore the latter. *

"Road near Maisey, Hampton Glos," bv Sir Herbert Hughes Stanton, was found in very good order. A cattle picture by Miss Lucy Kemp Welch and a sunset coastal oil by Julius Olsson, R.A., entitled ''Rum Island," were badly damaged. "The Golden Age," by Harold Speed, is in fairly good order, and can be restored by the artist. "Little Dean Tower, the Tweed, Scotland," by S. J. L. Birch, is badlv damaged A sunset scene by Algernon Talmage is in good order except for a small hole in the sky. Valuable works which have not been recovered are Sir William Orpen's "Soldiers Resting on the Somme, 1918," and several of Sir George Clausen's and Mr Arnestry Brown's pictures. Wreckage is coming ashore with every tide, Mr Fuller" states, and as there is no proper supervision the bush residents are reaping a rich harvest. Tt was reported to him at one place he visited that passengers' suitcases and trunks were coming ashore and the contents removed by unauthorised persons.