GIFT PICTURES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 14

GIFT PICTURES

WORKS FOR DOMINION •LANDSCAPES OF ENGLAND A number of interesting pictures, the work of John Charles Dollman, R.W.S., who died in 1934, ware brought to New Zealand by the Tamaroa, which arrived at Auckland last night. These pictures have been presented by his son, Ca])tain J. Guy Dollman, of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Museums and galleries in the chipf centres will benefit by the gifts. For tinNational Gallery, Wellington, the picture chosen is (jailed "An Oxen Plouph Team and Ploughman on the Sussex Downs." The Wellington Museum is to have "On the Top," and two sketches of Sussex sc§nery, on both sides of the millboard. "Harvesting, Sussex Downs ' has been selected for Auckland. The Christchurch Museum will have the landscape " Below Ditchline; Beacon, Sussex." For the Dunedin Museum there is the "Middleton Chalk Pit, Sussex," and "Leopards," a' l " for Wanganui there is a picture of "Bluebells at Kew Gardens." Captain Dollman desired that specimens of his father's work should bs housed in other countries beside England. Atr. Ernest Marsh, of the Empire Art Loans Collection, helped Captain J)oI" man in his selection for New Zealan . The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company carried the gifts free of charge.