POVERTY AND BLINDNESS.
ARTIST’S BRAVE STRUGGLE.
(Received Tuesday, 9.5 a.m.) Monday.
Hd7a.ce Van Ruith, the veteran artist, died' in London, aged 84 years, after a brave struggle against failing eyesight and acute poverty. Practically his only income was a Turner annuity of £SO, awarded him as a distinguished .artist. His last picture, “Nurse Cavell on the Scrap of Paper,” ivas only completed on Armistice Day, after a tragic race against approaching blindness. — Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14959, 10 July 1923, Page 5
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