VETERAN ARTIST’S DEATH
BRAVE BUT PATHETIC STRUGGLE LONDON, July 9. Horace Vanruith, a veteran artist, died in London, aged 84, after a brave struggle against failing eyesight and acute poverty. Practically his only income was a Turner annuity of £5O, awarded to him as a distinguished. artist. His last picture, “Nurse Cavell on the Scrap of Paper,” was only completed on Armistice Day, after a tragic race against approaching blindness.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18821, 11 July 1923, Page 9
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