LOVER OF ART
SIR JOSEPH DUVEEN’S GIFTS. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, October 11. Sir Joseph Duveen, who has already made magnificent gifts to England's art treasures, to ensure their adequate housing has now, subject to certain provisions, offered a gallery for foreign sculpture at the Tate Gallery, an extension to the National Portrait Gallery to relieve the present inartistic overcrowding, and funds to enable the trustees of the British Museum to provide a dignified setting for Elgin marbles and Nerid statues. Sir Joseph Duveen has already promised a new gallery for Italian art at the National Gallery. —British Official Wireless.
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Southland Times, Issue 20615, 13 October 1928, Page 7
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100LOVER OF ART Southland Times, Issue 20615, 13 October 1928, Page 7
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