ROYAL ALBERT DOCKS.
PICTURE FOR NEW ZEALAND. MR. WILFORD ACCEPTS GIFT. .LONDON, March 20. Tip High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr. T. M. Wilford, has accepted from the Port, of London Authority a water-colour painting by Mr. William Walcot, showing a vessel discharging afc the Royal Albert Docks. The picture was specially commissioned and will be hung in Parliament House, Wellington.
Mr.' William Walcot, who was born in Russia in 1874, is a painter, etcher and architect. Ho is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He studied at studios in Paris and St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). He has held exhibitions of his work in Rome find London. Ho has published books of his architectural water-colours q.nd etchings and Roman compositions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 11
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