NATIONAL GALLERY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1937, Page 10

NATIONAL GALLERY

TWO LOAN EXHIBITIONS

DUTCH AND FLEMISH ART

Two very interesting exhibitions of pictures will be opened in the National Art Gallery on Thursday of next week. One will consist of Dutch arid Flemish Old Masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, together with a few works by artists df other nationalities, notable among which are paintings by Hogarth and Greuze. The other will be a collection of etchings. The Dutch and Flemish pictures have been lent to New Zealand by the Empire Art Loan Collections Society, England, which was responsible for sending the British pictures from Ihe Tate and National Galleries a few months ago. But this second exhibi■ion is of quite a different nature from ;he previous one, and a glance through ■he list of artists represented shows hat the exhibition will be unique in ■he annals of art in New Zealand and ■hat it will be of outstanding interest ;o those who have never had the opportunity of visiting the famous English and Continential galleries. The pictures are 53 in number, and there are representative examples of the work pf Canaletto, Cuyp, Van Dyck, Van Everdingen, de Heem, Van Huysum, Gabriel Metsu, Mignon, Van Ostade, Rubens, Teniers, and Van de Velde, to mention only a few of the names familiar in the world of art. These are much travelled pictures. The collection has been exhibited in most of the provincial towns in England, and it has spent a year in touring Canada. In 1917 the late Mr. William Harvey, of Leeds, made over'to a body of five trustees these 53 pictures as" a loan collection, not only for the English provincial galleries but also for galleries throughout the British Empire. It is now Wellington^ turn to enjoy them, Dunedin nnd Christchurch already having had that privilege. The 68 etchings have been lent by the Twenty One Gallery, London, and these interesting British and Continental prints should meet with keen appreciation on the part of those interested in art.

The double exhibition will be open to the public from June 24 until July at