A VETERAN ARTIST
DEATH IN POVERTY
AFTER A GALLANT STRUGGLE.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - SEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 10th July, 10 a.m,)
LONDON, 9th July. Horace Vanruith, the veteran artist, died in London, aged eighty-four, after a brave struggle against failing eyesight and acute poverty. Practically his only income was a Turner annuity of £50 awarded to him as a distinguished artist. His last picture,, one of Nurse Cavell, was only completed on Armistice Day' after a. tragic race against approaching blindness. -
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 7
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83A VETERAN ARTIST Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 7
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