FORTUNE'S FRAME
(A. and N.Z. Cables.)
j OLD MASTER FOUND STUCK I TO BACK OF CHEAP PICTURE
ADELAIDE, Saturday. \ A painting by an old master and worth probably £1000 has been found by a South Australian woman, tacked on the back of a picture she bought in a seeond-hand shop. It has been identified as the work of a noted Dutch artist of the 17th : century. The Curator of Adelaide Art Gallery (Mr. L. A Wilkie) examined the painting, and considers it a good specimen of the work of Vandermeer, who died in 1667. i The woman who made the discovery went into a second-hand shop to buy an old picture franm i The one she chose had a picture of some criclceters. •' When she dismantled the picture j she found an old painting tacked in ' as backing. Out of euriosity she took the painfing, which depicts a river scene, to Mr. Wilkie, who pronounced it as a mastei'piece. It will he sent to England to be j valued and sold. |
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19320727.2.34
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 285, 27 July 1932, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
171FORTUNE'S FRAME Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 285, 27 July 1932, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in