EXAMPLE IN AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 339, 26 April 1928, Page 14

EXAMPLE IN AUCKLAND

The largest Arnesby Brown canvas in the E. Murray Fuller Collection of contemporary British art, which is now being shown at the Whitmore Street gallery at Wellington, has been purchased for the capital city’s permanent collection. Auckland possesses an Arnesby Brown, and a remarkably good one, too. “After tbe Heat of the Day,” purchased for the Mackelvie Collection, was hung at the Royal Academy in 1900. The picture in the Auckland gallery is a splendid example of characteristic work by this essentially British painter—a small herd of cows, wandering homewards, along a typically English lane, the whole scene bathed in the golden glow of summer eventide. John Alfred Arnesby Brown, R.A., hails from Nottingham, where he was born in 1866. He studied with Andrew McCallum and Herkomer. An associate of the Royal Academy in 1903, it was not until 1915 that he was elected an academician. Arnesby Brown has liad three pictures purchased for the Chantrey collection. No fewer than 11 academicians are represented in the collection which Mr. Murray Fuller has now on view in Wellington. Frank Brangwyn, R.A., Sir Herbert Hughes Stanton, R.A., P.R.W.S., Harold Speed, R.P., Sir William Orpen, Lamorna Birch, A.R.A., Sydney Lough Thompson, and W. Lee Hankey, R.W.S., are but a few of the artists represented. Mr. Fuller was fortunate in securing the personal co-operation of Sir William Orpen, Sir Herbert Hughes Stanton and Mr. Arnesby Brown in selecting the pictures, which comprise the most important art exhibition brought to New Zealand since the Baillie collection. New Zealand art-lovers should show appreciation of the Wellington collector’s enterprise in the only tangible form. Aucklanders are awaiting the arrival of Mr. Fuller’s show in this city with much interest. The southerners, I am informed, will have the first opportunity, after Wellington, of viewing them. ERIC RAMSDEN. HIS RECREATION Biographical Studies Mr Philip Guedalla, who is one of the most active of the Liberal candidates for seats in the House of Commons, is yet finding time to continue his biographical adventures. The Duke of Wellington is to be his next subject, and the present Duke h£g I laced at 1118 disposal the vast body

of unpublished correspondence preserved at Apsley House. Mr Guedalla naturally discovers that uninterrupted work on a task of this size is almost impossible, and is seeking recreation in a few biographical studies of some feminine figures of the 19th century whose husbands have hitherto received more attention than the ladies themselves. These will include Mary Anne Disraeli, Emily Palmerston, Emily Tennyson, Catherine Gladstone, Jane Carlyle, and Mary Arnold. Mr Guedalla hopes to have this book, which he calls “Bonnet and Shawl: an Album,” ready for publication this year.