ART MASTERPIECES.
A WONDERFUL COLLECTION. ,(BT . CAJ3LE—rp.ESS . .ASSOCIATION —COPTJUGHT.) {absthaluh axd n.z. cable association.) (Received January 7th, 8.35 p.m.) r LONDON, "January 7. 1 Eight hundred masterpieces of TJeniJsh painting gathered at Burlington House are iiisured for £3,000,000. Their auction value is at least £ 10,000,000, This constitutes the most, remarkable art collection of the present generation. 1 '
•' Famous Continental, and, American collectors loaned the treasures,* neces- . sitating a special band of watchmen in the galleries night and day. There are sixty Rubenses and Vandycks, including Rubens's "Descent ■■'from the' Cross,''-, from the. Antwerp Cathedral, and,a aeries of Flemish tapeßtries . lent by the' Australian Government, alone worth ,£250,000." The Vandycks are nobly represented by Hubert Vandyck's ' 'Three 'Maries at the- Sepulchre," and Jan Vandyck'a portrait! of his wife, _ from Bruges, which was discovered in a Belgian where it was used, as a tray by a ; fish-wife.'lt is now. valued at .'£50,000. Rogier, van Der -Weyden, Hans-Memling, David John Mabuse, and the. sculptor Constantin Meunier; are all splendidly represented. ' '
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18894, 8 January 1927, Page 15
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