VETERAN ARTIST’S DEATH.
BLINDNESS AND POVERTY
iEiec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) .Austratian and N.Z. Cable Association ,
(Received July 10, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 9.
Horace Vam-uilh, the veteran artist, has died in London, aged 84 years, after a bravo struggle against failing eyesight and acute poverty. Practically his onlyincome was tho Turner annuity of £SO, awarded to him as a distinguished artist. His last picture, “Nurse Cavell on tho •Scrap of Paper,” was only- completed on Armistice Day, after a tragic race against approaching blindness.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16174, 10 July 1923, Page 3
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