Tho death has tnken place at Soulhnmpton of Mr. Albert Purer Lucas, in his 91st year. Mr. Lucas, who was an artist, was a son of tho late Mr. Richard Cockle Lucas, a Hampshire sculptor, who fashioned the famous wax bust which was purchased by Dr. Bode, hend of the JCaiser's Museum in Berlin, for .£BOOO, in tho belief that it was a genuine work of Leonardo da Vinci. Mr. Albert Lucas was instrumental, after a fierco controversy, in proving that Dr. Bodo had mado a mistake, and that tho bust was tho work of his father.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 7
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97Untitled Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 7
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