NATIONAL GALLERY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1456, 3 June 1912, Page 6

NATIONAL GALLERY.

6 A SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN. MORE THAN £5000 SUBSCRIBED. LIST OP THE PICTURES PRESENTED. Tho picture purchase fund is now well beyond tho minimum of £"M 0 fixed by the City Council at tho commencement of tho movement, and the organisers have therefore earned the promised corporation subsidy of ,£'looo. This result was attained on Saturday by the generous gift of .£IOO from a public-spirited citizen who wishes his benefaction to bo anonymous. There is still a number of contributions i'rom various sources to come in, so that the linal result will' show an amount very considerably in excess of i'oOOO. The organisers can therefore fairly claim that their campaign has been a complete success. The exhibition of British pictures attracted another great crowd of visitors yesterday afternoon, tho gallery being packed. There can be no doubt but that this collection of British paintings has greatly stimulated the public interest in art, and it ought now to be the aim of the proper authorities to keep that interest alive. The gallery will be open throughout to-day, and citizens aro reminded again that it will close finally in Wellington on Wednesday next. Tho time available for viewing tho pictures is therefore strictly limited. Private advices from Masterton, where active steps aro being taken to raiso.a fund for the purchase _of a Masterton picture for presentation' to the National Gallery, go to show that a sum of at least C CIOO will be raised for the purpose.. Mr. Sunimerell, of Levin and Co.'s. branch, is acting as local secretary, and is working most energetically to make the movement a success there. The donations to date are:— £ e. d. Amount acknowledged 4,911 11 S W. A. Kennedy 110 W. Callender 5 5 0 Pioneer Club (additional) 1 11 0. E. Pcarce and Co 110 A. Scut : 100 0 0 Another Scot 110 Girls' Branch, Victoria League 1 11 G Eallinger Bros 2 2 0 C. F. Stewart 110 Well-wisher 1 1 0 Further commission on sales 13 0 0 H. S. WA UDELL MEMORIAL PICTUPvE. M.L 0 10 6 Staff, Levin and Co 3 15 0 W. Mowbray 2 2 0 W. A. Mowbray 2 2 0 . .£5,018 15 8 As a present result of the campaign, the National Gallery will be enriched by no less than Kfty-one works of art, consisting of twenty-six oils, nineteen water-colours, and six etchings. This is not the final icsult, as tho Selection Committee has yet to make some further purchases, so that the complete list should number well over half a hundred. The list of the pictures presented <o date is as follows:— Messrs. Vivian, Dan, and Eric Riddiford, "Blue and Gold" (O.), by Mr. Loudan; Messrs. Levin and Co., "Tho Rosemakers of the East End" (O.), by M. Fisher; Mr. J. Studholme, Ruanui, "The Brook" (O.), bv B. Priestman, R. 0.1. ; Mr. W. C. Buchanan, M.P., "Highland Pastures" (O.), by H. Moore, R.A.; Messrs. R. Hannah and Co., "If no one ever marries mo" (O.), by M. Loudan; Mr. Sydney Johnston, Taknpau, "Gabrielle" (O.), by Mr. Young-Hunter; Savago Club, "Professor Smith" (0.), by O. Birley, R. 0.1.; Wellington .Industrial-As-sociation, "Grey Morning, tho Maes, Holland" (W.), by P. Spenlove-Spenlove, R. 1., R. 0.1.; Messrs. Baldwin and Roy ward, "Tho Sleeping .Mermaid" (W.), by J. R. Weguelin, R.W.S.; Mrs. and Miss Riddiford, "The Court of tho Oleanders" (0.), by A. Withers, S.T.P.; Mrs. and Miss Joseph, "Ouiet Evening, Concnrneau" (O.), by T. Williams, R. 1., R. 0.1.; sons of the late Mr. William Bcetham; "Waiting for Darkness" (O.), by D. Earguherson, A.R.A.; Miss Tlaber's School, "Tho Boston Stump" (W.), by A. W. Rich, N.E.\.; Mr. Noel Barraud, "Near ArunArundel" (W.), by E. Hasellmrst, R.8.A.; Mr. George Pirie. "Tho Sleepy Model" (0.), by Ruth Hollingsworth; proprietors of "Evening Post," "A Winsome Maid" (O.), by R. Hope, A.R.S.A.; Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Hie Tower Bridge, London" (O.), by J. S., Hill, R. 1., R. 0.1.; staff of Post and telegraph Department, "Breezy Weather, Ballantrac" (0.1, bv J. Henderson, R.S.W.; Crovdon School,'"The Pool" (W.); by Jessie "Hall; Wellington Branch New Zealand Institute of Architects, "Interior of St. Wu If nam's, Abbeville" (W.), by G. Thomson. N.E.A.; Arts Club, "Etchings (3)," by Prank Brangwyn; Pioneer Club, "Etchings (2)," by Frank Brangwyn; Mr. Wm. M'Lean, "Etching," by J. J. Tizzot; Miss K. A. Maiir, "Italian Goatherd" (0.), by Miss K. Sperry; Mrs. P. W. Mackenzie, "Tho Old Kitchen Garden, The Cairn, Loch Ryan," by Mrs. Marrabele, P.R.S.W.P.; and Messrs. J. O. and W. E. Bidwill, "The Shepherd's Queen" (W.), by L. Pocock The following pictures have been purchased to date by tho Selection Committee from public subscrintions:—W. Leo Hankey. "Washing Day" (W.); I. 1.. Gloag, R. 0.1., "Bacchante and Fawns" (O.); G. W. Philnot. R. 0.1., "Girl at Toilet" (0.); E. .A. Walton, R.S.A., 1., "Sunshine and Shade" (O.); G. Houston, A.R.S.A., "Spring in Ayrshire" (O.); R. W. Allen, V.P.R.W.S., U.S.W., "Portsoy, Scotland" (O.); T. L. Shoosmith, "Tho Abbcv Towers," La Chaise Dieu (W.); Geo. "Thomson, N.E.A., "The Butter Market," Montreuil (W.); IT. S. Tuke, A.R.A., A.R.W.S., "Embarkation" (W.); Arthur Kynaston, "An Idyll of Lost Atlantis (O.); Fred, Stratton, "Tho Bathers" (W.); Nelson Dawsnn. S.T.P., "Brigantine going into Littlehamplon Harbour" fO.); F. Craig, R. 0.1., "Goblin .Market" (O.); H. Hughes-Stanton, A.R.W.S., R. 0.1., "Sunrise, Pas de Calais" (O.); Oliver Hall, 1., "Salta Moss, Cumberland" (O.); W. A. Wildman, "Cai thcdral, France" (W.); D. Hub-head, '"The River Orwell" (W.); Terrick Williams, "The Quayside, Concnrneau" (W.); J. H. K. Duff, "Cain" (W.); Albert Goodwin, R.W.S., "Autumn at Braunston" (W.); Edward Stott, A.R.A., "The Bird's Caere" (pasted; and G. Clausen, R.A., R.AV.S., "The Haymakers" (0.)..