IRREPARABLE LOSS
VALUABLE PAINTINGS ONLY 12 RECOVERED (For Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Mr. Murray Fuller, who lost many valuable paintings in the wreck of the Manuka, has recovered,l2 of them, which were found by settlers. The two principal pictures found were valued at 400 guineas each, "Sussex Meadows," and "A Provencale Forecourt," in oils. Both are by H. A. La Thangue, R.A. Mr. Fuller is disappointed at not finding any of the most valuable works, except La Thangue's, especially Sir William Orpen's "Soldiers Resting on the Somme, 1918." This was one of his most important war pictures, painted "on. the spot," in France. Sir George Clausen's two important works have not been seen, nor have Aniesby Brown \s. There were four of his landscapes on .board the vessel. Aniesby Brown, E.A., is the most, outstanding English landscape! painter of the day, and these works are a great loss.
Reports from Papatowai, where Mr. Fuller was staying, state that passengers' suitcases and trunks were, being recovered, opened, and the contents removed by unauthorised persons.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17145, 30 December 1929, Page 8
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