ART GALLERY BEQUEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1938, Page 4

ART GALLERY BEQUEST

SIR H. BEAUCHAMP’S WILL (By Telegraph—Press Association.) . WELLINGTON, This. Day. Under the will of the late Sir Harold Beauchamp, who died at Wellington on October 5, the Public Trustee is appointed executor and trustee and Mr F. H. Bass, advisory trustee. Sir Harold ,was keenly interested in the activities of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, and during his lifetime he gave his former residence and grounds in Fitzherbert Terrace of the value of £6OOO for realisation and investment of the proceeds for the purchase of works of art for the national collection. (This £6OOO has now grown to £12,000). In addition, he gave the sum of £5OOO for the National Art Gallery of which he was appointed a trustee by statute.

His will provides that after the expiration of a certain life interest, the sum of £5OOO shall be set aside for payment of the annual income therefrom to tne Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum to be expended in the purchase of pictures to be hung together and to be known as “The Harold Beauchamp Collection.” Sir Harold expressed the desire that endeavours should be made to procure pictures of the highest artistic quality irrespective of the nationality or place of residence of the painter.