THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH.
BICENTENARY OF PAINTER. WORKS SHOWN AT IPSWICH. (Received October 7, 7.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, Oct. 6. Prince Henry will open to-morrow at Ipswich an exhibition of pictures by Thomas Gainsborough on the occasion of the bicentenary of the painter's birth. The exhibits have been insured for over £500,000. They include 50 masterpieces from galleries at Home, and from private collections in Britain and America. There will also bo important examples' of the work of Rubens, Vandyck and Richard Wilson, and other old masters by whom Gainsborough was greatly influenced, together with works by John Opie, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Iloppner, Constable and Cotman, who were his contemporaries or successors, and who came under his spell.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 11
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118THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 11
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