HISTORIC PICTURE
SIR F. BELL’S GIFT
’ TO NELSON ART GALLERY
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association) ' NELSON, July 23. Sir Francis Bell lias presented a valuable historic oil painting, ‘ by James Webber, R.A., to the Suter Art Gallery. Webber was the artist on Captain Cook’s third voyage, and his picture shows Ship Cove, in Queen Charlotte Sound, with Cook’s survey party’s tent and' a number of Maoris and canons.
In a letter to Mr C. R. Fell, pne of the Trustees of the Gallery, Sir Francis says: “Your letter recalls that I was born- -at • Nelson'ten years after'“its foundation ,by the. .New Zealand Company, under leadership of my distant cousin, Captain Arthur Wakefield, my father being then (1851) the Resident Agent'at Nelson of the Company. It is probable that some of the old natives who met Arthur Wakefield, in 1841, had, in their childhood, seen Captain Cook, and it seems that this painting by the artist of Cook’s expedition could not find a more appropriate resting place than the. city nearest to Queen Charlotte Sound of the Dominion which really owes its .union with Great Britain to Captain Cook.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1931, Page 3
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187HISTORIC PICTURE Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1931, Page 3
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