REJECTED PICTURE STORM

Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 10

REJECTED PICTURE STORM

THOUGHT GENUINE FOR SEVENTY YEARS The select ion committee of the Dutch Exhibition at Burlington Bouse, London, recently rejected as doubtful a picture which had been in Glasgow City Art Gallery for seventy-two years as the work of Hobema, the seventeenth-cen-tury Dutch landscape painter. Tins picture, 1 Woody Landscape,’ regarded as one of the most valuable in Glasgow's collection, was among five sent by (ho corporation to tho exhibition in Landau. The director of the Glasgow Art Gallery was informed by Major A. A. Longden, secretary of tho exhibition, that the picture had been declared by British and Dutch experts not to be the work of tho great artist. While the members of the Dutch selection committee agreed that (he picture was nut the work of lloheina, they could not agree as to the possible, author. Major Longden told a. reporter that the picture was undoubtedly after the Hobema manner. 'The rejection has caused widespread indignation in Scottish art circles, where its authenticity had never been doubted. Hobema was bequeathed to the corporation by ex-Baillic M'Lellan. The Art Galleries Committe decided to send a letter to the exhibition’s committee saying that their action was regarded as a grave breach of courtesy.