FORTUNE IN PICTURES
GREAT ARTISTS’ PAINTINGS A HUGE COLLECTION EIGHT HUNDRED' MASTER PI EC FS. iY CdBI E PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON. Jan. 7. Eight hundred masterpieces of Flemish painting have been gathered at Burlington House, and are insured for £3.000,00. The auction value is at least £lO,000,000. This constitutes the most remarkable art collection of the present generation. Famous Continental and American collectors loaned treasures, necessitating a special band of watchmen in the galleries night and day. Sixty Rubens and Vandyeks include Rubens’ “Descent from, the Gross,’’ from the Antwerp Cathedra 1 series. Flemish tapestries lent by the Australian Government alone are worth £250.000. The Van Eycks 'are nobly represented by Hubert Van Eiyck’.s “Three Maries at the Sepulchre,’ ’and Jan Van Eyck’s portrait of his wife, from Bruges. which was discovered in a Belgian fish market, where- it was used a-s a tray by a fishwife. It is valued at £50,000. Ropier Vanderweyden, Bans Memline, Gerard, David John Mabuse, and the sculptor, Constantin Meunier. are all splendidly represented.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 8 January 1927, Page 9
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