Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, the famous architect, points out that the recent lawsuit about tho alleged Eornney picture recalls tho famous controversy about the wax bust a few years ago. The bust Vas acquired as a priceless treaeuro for the Berlin Museum, because it was believed to be a work of Leonardo da Vinci. After, the discovery that it was a work by Lucas it was put on a back 6helf. And yet as a work of art it would be no better for being by one artist, and worse for being by the other. Similarly the picture purporting to be by Romney and a. portrait of Mrs. Siddons, which turned out not to be by Eomnjy at all, is as good a picture as it tras when it wag bouglit for .£20,000.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3180, 3 September 1917, Page 4
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