PICTURES FOR NATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23617, 29 March 1940, Page 10

PICTURES FOR NATION

LORD ROTHERMERE'S GIFT DISPERSING A COLLECTION [FROM OUR OWN COniIKSI'ONnKNT] LONDON, March r, Viscount Rothormerc has decided to disperse his private collection of paintings. He has cabled from Egypt announcing this, and asking a fellow collector to offer three pictures from the collection to Sir Kenneth Clark for the National Gallery. He does not specify which particular works are to be offered, but indicates that further gifts may follow. "The choice of the three," it was stated, "may be left largely to Sir Ken net li." Forty years have gone to the building of Lord Rothormerc's collection, in which the Italian Old Masters are particularlv well represented. Fifteen pictures from it have recently boon on loan to a national exhibition in Budapest. About three years ago Lord Rothcrinere gave three paintings from the collection to Kilburn Parish Church, London, in memory of his mother, with whom he had, as a lad, often worshipped there. Another picture, n Holliui. showing the Madonna and two saints and valued at £IO,OOO, ho presented to the Slipper Chapel at Walsitigham about a year ago.