FUNDS FOR PICTURES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 31, 31 October 1942, Page 3

FUNDS FOR PICTURES

National Art Gallery ‘■Though there is uo endowment available at present for purchasing pictures” states the annual report of the committee of management -for the National Art Gallery, “it will benefit later on from the Sir Harold Beauchamp endowment fund (now £14,161). the interest on which will be available for the purchase of pictures when it reaches £15,600; under the late Sir Harold Beauchamp’s will a further fund of £5OOO for a like purpose will be available in five jears’ time; the Ellen Eames collection fund, estimated to realize at least £20,000; and the Thomas Lindsay Buick bequest, estimated to realize over £lO,OOO. The following is a list of the, pictures acquired during the- year:—“Wellington in 1870” and "A South Island Scene (water-colours), by C. D. Barraud, presented by Sir James and Lady Leigh Wood, London; “Portrait of the late itight Honourable Neville Chamberlain' ■ (mezzotint), by H. Macbeth Raeburn, presented by the Prime Minister Mr. Eraser; “Tranquility at Polperro ’ (oil painting), by H. Davis Richter, R.O.L, R.8.A., presented by Mrs. M. Murray Fuller: “Heathcote River and Flams from Hills at Mount Pleasant” (oil painting), by Cecil F. Kelly, ’purchased by the committee; “Maori Girl” ami “Head of an Old Man” (coloured drawings), by H. Linley Richardson, R.8.A., purchased by the committee. The following pictures were presented by the New’ Zealand Academy of Fine Arts: —“Portrail of my Uncle” (oil painting), by Edith Collier: ’’Self Portrait” (oil painting), by. the late Raymond Mclntyre; "The Road to Arthurs Paes” (oil painting), by the late M. E. R. Tripe; “Ohau River” (tempera), by Esther Hdpe.