BRONTE PICTURES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 14, 7 May 1914, Page 4

BRONTE PICTURES.

“The Times” says there lias been a •valuable discovery of Bronte pictures, ,and in a manner at once, romantic and extraordinary. Mrs Gaskell’s “Life of Charlotte Bronte,” in the Haworth edition, speaks of portraits taken by the Rev. A. B. Xicholls, Charlotte’s widowed husband, to his home in Ireland, at hjs departure from Haworth. Nobody ever saw them there, however, and it was generally believed that the group had perished and that the “Emily” which it was known had been given to a servant, had been lost. Only a few weeks ago, however, the lady who became the second wife of Mr Xicholls, and who is still living in the Irish house where he resided until his death, was looking on while a servant turned out an old cupboard or wardrobe, which had lain long undisturbed, when tho servant came upon two brown paper parcels. Mrs Xicholls bade her untie them, and from one emerged the picture of “Emily,” and from the second, actually .folded into four, the group of the three sisters, the very group which Charlotte held up for Mrs Gaskell to see, as is described in, the life. Both pictures were painted by their brother Bramwell Bronte, and they have now been placed in the National Portrait Gallery.