PRICELESS PICTURES
THE KING’S ART GALLERY GAINSBOROUGH’S BEST Guests invited by their Majesties to Buckingham Palace parties are occasionally privileged to view the Royal picture gallery. They then have the rare opportunity of viewing at leisure the priceless pictures hung on the walls.
His Majesty’s collection includes seven of Gainsborough’s finest works. Six of them are portrait studies of great size, averaging 91 inches by 60 inches. The gem of the Royal collection is acknowledged to be the seventh Gainsborough picture, “Diana and Actaeon. one of the few, if not the only, nude subjects he ever painted. . It was purchased by the Prince oi Wales from Gainsborough’s widow at the sale of his works after his and has never been publicly exhibited, except once, in the war years, at Batn in special circumstances. It was hung for many years in one of the bedrooms at Windsor, and se was never seen by any of the writers on Gainsborough’s works. It 15 described as an “unfinished” picture. It is, however, considered by ari critics to be one of the greatest pictures in the -world, “with an innnu variety of pose, and characteristics!!, beautiful treatment of landscape, broaa and strong, yet tender and delicate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 53, 25 May 1927, Page 10
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