£100,000 FOR CHARITY.

Evening Star, Issue 14118, 22 July 1909, Page 3

£IOO,OOO FOR CHARITY.

The will of the late Sir Joseph Aynsley Davidson Shipley bequeathed an art gallery to Newcastle-on-Tyne, and over £IOO,OOO for charity.. ; Mr Shipley, who was eighty-seven at the' time of his death on February 4 last, was a solicitor at Newcastle, and a former under-sheriff for Newcastle and Northumberland. His estate has been sworn at £188,156 gross, with net personalty £137,076. He left a large number of bequests to friends, servants, and employees. His collection of oil paintings, numbering about 2,500, and including examples by Rembrandt, Holbein, Corrcggio, Rubens, Teuiers, Raphael, Vandyck, Murillo, Velasquez, Constable, Gainsborough, Turner, MillaLs, Reynolds, Hogarth, Cooper, Landseer, Angelica Kaufmann, and Rosa Boiiheur, ho has left to the public. If within three years of his death there should be an art gallery in Newcastle of sufficient extent to admit his pictures, or such as may be selected, in addition to those already in the institution, the bequest is to go there. An existing art gallery at Higham place. Newcastle, is expressly barred as being too small. The trustees, however, may pay £50,000 to an existing art gallery for its enlargement. Or, if a sum should be sub scribed which, with the £30,000, would suffice to provide a gallery, the trustees may pay that sum. Failing Newcastle, similar provisions are to apply to Gateshead, and, failing that, the pictures are to be offered successively to the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and the South Kensington Museum. Sums amounting to over £B,OOO are left to various charities and public institutions, and the residue (which is expected to reach £100,000) is left to tho same bodies. I