DESTROYED BY FIRE
A VALUABLE PICTURE
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian -and ''fcf.Z;.' gable Association)
LONDON, Nov. 20. Two years ago Sir ftobert Thomas, an ex-Conunoner, when ‘passing - a secondhand picture shop in London was struck by the expression on a child’s fa'ce“ in a dilapidated ’ picture. Hir ‘bought the picture for'£2s and had‘it cleaned.’'’A few davs later the.' seller I ’tried'"td v buJ Jt’back for £SO, but Sit Robert;. ThoMhS refused to sell' and had the 1 pictntfe amined by experts, : who reported '-that it was a Raphael’s Madonna-Del Rozzbj worth between £20,000 and £60,000. Last night the picture was destroyed'by lire, which destroyed practically the whole of tlie contents of Sir Robert Thomas's residence at Holyhead.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 November 1923, Page 5
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