PORTRAIT OF NELSON.
DISCOVERY IN : DUBLIN.
STOLEN ROMNEY PAINTIH& .
The British Treasury is . said to hay© made an offer for a portrait of Nelson, believed to be by Romney, which came into the possession of Mr. Bernard Finnegan,' an eipployee in a grocery shop in Dublin a few years ago. The picture was found some years ago by a workman, since dead, wWls fi?c»vatn ing ruins at Kilmaihham Castle, pn the outskirts of Dublin. : On Removing a joist, .the workman, it is related, foqnd a skeleton, beside which lay the picture. He sold the picture to . Mr. Finnegan ior a few shillings. ' , ;
When the canvas was cleaned the portrait of a boy was revealed. Mr. Finnegan put it away in a trunk, hut subsequently it was shown to experts, uho were convinced that' it was a portrait of Lord Nelson as a boy, painted by Romney. - • The theory is that the canvas was stolen from Kilmaitiham Casile, 4nd that the thief, in trying to hideit; got into an underground passage frcm which h<J was unable to extricate himself and died of suffocation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19608, 9 April 1927, Page 11
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182PORTRAIT OF NELSON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19608, 9 April 1927, Page 11
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