“WELLINGTON GREETING BLUCHER”
FAMOUS. HOHENZOLLERN PAINTING TO BE SOLD BERLIN, May 20. Tlio rumours t! .at the ex-Crown Prince Ims been selling pictures from his ancestral collection have been confirmed by the news that one of Germany’s most famous national paintings, ‘ Wellington Greeting Blucher at Belle Alliance!’ by the great historical painter Menzel, is to be sold in Amstci dam.
Hitherto the Hohenzollern family strenuously denied all such efforts to 'sell, and correspondence between the ex-Kaiser and Dr Wilhelm Von Bode shortly before this great art critic’s death "will he remembered German Republicans consider that the fact that the art collection was recognised ns Hohenzollern property was due only to the general 'oars at the time of" the expropriation of the property by the Communists The sale has been effected by the confidential broker of the ex-Royal Family, Herr Moser, to the Dutch art dealer, Gondstikker.
England is understood to be as interested in the picture as America,, owing to the nature of the subject.
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Evening Star, Issue 20506, 10 June 1930, Page 9
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