NEW PICTURES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 85, 3 January 1908, Page 5

NEW PICTURES.

.VALUABLE SHIPMENT ARRIVES. The. pictures for which the* authorities .of thei Wellington Art. Gallery sont .Homo £800 arrived'on board tho Athenic on Wednesday. Tho J full 'list comprises the' following" '■•'^V"''7 7 : " : ''£ s. d. F. Mayer, two watcr-colour draw-. ings :; ' . • ••'- ... ... ... 10 10 . 0 Frank''.Brangwyn, A.R.A., "'pic-; .turo',w'''Santa Maria 1 della . _ ..., ' ... ... 250 - 0 0 Charles Sims, picture, "By Sum- . ...v ... 60 0 0 Mrs.''-: Stanhope. Forbes, picture, 7!' Charity" , ... ■: 50 0 0 B. J.:Lamorna Birch, two watercolour .drawings, "The Thaw" , and' ,"Dusk". ...' ;36 70 ; 0 Kobert Aiining Bell, drawing, ".June in Black and 81ue"... 12 12 0 I'red. Hall, picture, "An Old ' Waterway" ... ... , s „ 40 0 0 Harold Knight, picture, "A Cot;ta*ge"' Interior" / ... 26 5 0 Mrs;' Knight, picture, "Mending ■ ; ' the,; Linen- ... ... ... 15 15 0 Crawhall,'set of drawings, "Rcynarde/ye Fox" 17 5 0 H. L 7 Noirris, water-colouT drawing,'. "Downton; Salisbury"... 15 15 6 Molfatt Lindner,'picture, "Amsterdam"- ... ... ... 66 0 0 (James Paterson, drawing, "On tho Loing, near iontainbleu" ... ... ... 50 1 0 0 Total cost. . ... 650 2 0 A- local art .enthusiast, who knows, the relative values of the English names, predicts,that when the pictures, are opened but they "will be found to contain many prizes; Frank" Brangwyn,- A.R.A., is held by somo to be; the finest painter in England. Mrs. Stanhope Forbes, Robert Anning 8011, Fred. Hall, Crawhall, and Jamos Paterson, are artists of distinction/ and it is anticipated that- the others whom the selectors patroiiiscd7will furnish valuable additions to our locaL gallery. Wo hav6 already a picture by ..Frod Hall—a picture of a veterinary surgeon of the old school treating a little dog."' James Paterson belongs to tho Scotch school 7of artists, and Dr. Fyffc, of Wellington, who saw some , of his pictures in the.English Art Gallery, spoaks in voryhigh praise of his work. The solectors seom to have made a good capture over the Brangwyn picture of "Santa Maria della Salute," for it 'was lately marked at £500. 'Tho selectors in England were Miss Hodgkins, Mr. Norman Garstin. Mr. Morlcy Flotchcr,.aiul Mr. T. L. Devitt. Mr. Devitt was a solcctor of pictures recently for tho New- South. Wales Gallery in Sydney. Tho pictures will bo on exhibition in tho Wellington Art Gallery probably the week after next.