SECOND EDITION PICTURES OF COLONIAL SCENERY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2794, 8 March 1882, Page 3

SECOND EDITION PICTURES OF COLONIAL SCENERY.

It will (says a London correspondent of the Melbourne “ Age ") be within the recollection of all who took an interest in the late Melbourne Exhibition —and it would be hard to lind anyone in Victoria who did not —that a very handsome testimonial was collected among the British exhibitors as some recognition of the services rendered to them by Sir . Herbert -S,undford, . the representative on the spot .of.. ;the British Eoyal Commission. Sir Herbert intimated, I think, while in Melbourne, his intention of spending the money in picuces of Australian scenery, and immediately on his return be lost no time in commissioning Mr Nicholas Chevalier and Mr H. J. Johnstone to paint for him three views in New Zealand and Australia. These pictures have just been completed, and very fine:ones. they , most unquestionably are. Mr Chevalier, who since bis return from Australia has earned for himself a world-wide reputation as a water-color painter, has furnished two of them—the one a watercolor of Luke Ohau, and the dtliet’ a ’ similar painting of Mount Cook in New Zealand. With the permission of Sir Herbert, these pictures were exhibited by the artist at the recent annual dinner of the Alpine Club, and were much admired by all who saw them. As I have, I think, once before mentioned to you, the mountains of the antipodes have already aroused the interest of the members of the Alpine Club; and the pictures -of -Mr Chevalier will doubtless" tend to hasten the time when our leading amateur mountaineers hazard the attempt to reach the hitherto Untrodden summits of New Zealand mountains. TKe landscape of Mr Johnstone is a replica of th e large; picture representing "i backwater bn' the River Murray, BoutH ; Australia, ’which was ! so highly thottgbjT’ 61 ‘ in' 1 the Victorian ’ gallery'id ■ the Exhibition, and which, hash'd#gained a. place in the National; Gallery of 'Adel aide."' By use, Mr John , •tone’s hand' has lost none of its old cunning, and I ana told by those 1 who have- seen both pictures tbitt in many! respects Sir Herbert’s • picture is an Ida-; provement on the bbe shown at Mel*/ bourne. • The pictures are to be hung' in one of the rooms of Sir Herbert Stan *' town house, and doubtless many colonist's who comes to Lbndon .will have the pleasure of seeing.for ,theih-‘ •elves these •ome of the finest and ; boldest scenery, th^Wdrld possesse^..’" .... . .U;r»