MINIATURES NEW HND OLD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 66, 11 December 1907, Page 9

MINIATURES NEW HND OLD.

-j, ;If you'are a painter of miniatures, anil want tp' niake them look old, , one effective" pi'oeess,; it.:appears, is to "enolo'so them in a ' box,'make a'hole in'the lid* And then blow somo' sirfote.-.ift. upon.,the pictures.: This, in- ■ te'resting pieco 1 .of information was commit-, .nicatcd .in the course of .an extraordinary, „ ;caso .heard at the Wator. Foiice Court, Syd-: ; 'ney, 'on Wednesday aiid Thursday, when' ■ Hiresi.mon, John Charles Lovell,' John George . 1 .Cousins; David Andrews,' were charged , with,, having conspired, jp.- cheat ccrtain citi- 1 . by ropreseiitiiig to them that various nvmatures were' painted by Sir Martin Sbee, . ••.it;.A.,, and Sir Henry Raqburn, : It.A. A ' miniature' of Captain' Cook, offered to one . • buyer,Vand 'purchased-.'by. him for £40, was represented as having been, painted by Sir „ >Shee,i : but ;it came out in evidence ■' • tlinlt tho man who really painted it'was an Italian residing ill Sydney/who, called as, a witness; said he' had" received art lessons in •Florence and . Rome. This .Italian painted • the. mmiature to-tho'ortler of Cousins, from • ai picture .Tn'" , a''bb6]r, arid received, £1" in •' '.piyinimt;. l "- Two other miniatures,"of Gb'vernpi' Phillip and Sir Joseph Banks, were offered ■to Mr F. M. Jtladen, the Principal Librariar of t! e State, Andrews telling him that thei wore particularly old and very valuable—indeed; weaving quite an' mteiesting story ' about.-.them,'.-from which it appeared that tlic-y. ..had been painted by Sir Henry Rao-. bur.il,.and had nt one time been in .'the posiscssioii' 1 of the' Dulce of Edinburgh,"who had ; lost them while returning from a dance at Government Houso in Melbourne. Exaniination of. the . pictures convinced 'Mr. Bladen and a .friend, tlmt .they .wcro quite new, and' :.thi,S:fact,was, proved in.evidence when another Sydney artist, a ,young lady, stated in court that she had painted both' of them to tho .order ,of Lovell This witness, Miss ' Gladys Laycock, added that sho had put on tho.. initials; "li.R." to tlio order of Lovell •and:tl)ot,she had on previous occasions pla'c«4:.°thor initials on miniatures to his order.' • Sue-lifldi'copiccl tho-two. miniatures in ones tibri-from tho "Picturesque Atlas'," but did not;,; attempt to ..make, them look old, nor had she ocen instructed to do so. The three ic •- eus'ed .wero committed for. trial at the noxt ..Court, of Quarter Sessions. ' .*■•.•

. .",ldlenßss js .death/.and a' search for picas'' uN,w sure! to wreck life in shallows.'and'innisenes- Safety .and-sanity lie in system-atio-.useful effort.- —Hubbard. ; [Jmlor .the heading "now the money goes, - " the 1 elorns %'nardian" writes — i new-post office, to cost £75,000, is to lie b„j] t m Wellington. The present post office ia stated; to be .quite suitable for all possible requirements for, the next ton years. \inl yet, only. a., paltry £5001) can be squeezed "out of the Government for the I'icton vrliarf and .a' still .;inoro paltry sum for ..the Blehlieim. Waipara railway. It is not at all strnmw uiider such circumstances, that the people in the country are growing more and more impatient at the way thoyaro being ex. pjoitcd .for tne _ glory o.- tlie cities,. 7'| l!lt , :i375,0qp> v ould.briilrfp tlib two risers >n<ii;wick, bridge the' AVairan : ' nf Spring Ci-eolt .aim'-bU.ild a 'splendid wharf at I'ietou---wo/ki 'at. thousand- times more necessary : thairv" Post Office built in "classic renaissance." '