Perth Art Gallery.—The committee which controls the Perth Art Gallery has
purchased three new pictures, which have arrived from London last week.
The pictures are a valuable addition to the small but attractive
collection at present being hung in the gallery. The small room is now
overcrowded, but it is satisfactory to know that the working plans of the
new art gallery will be ready for inspection on Tuesday next. The three
pictures are :—“Adjusting the Plough,” a farming scene, by J. Scherrewitz,
a rising Dutch painter ; “Crossing the Ford,” a characteristic English
landscape by Thomas Creswick, R.A., who originally received £1,200 for the
painting ; and “Flooded Meadow—Norfolk Broads,” by Professor Karl Heffner,
of Dresden, Germany, a painter who has a world-wide reputation for his
wonderful atmospheric effects. This artist’s work is well known in
Australia, being represented in all the national galleries of the several
States.
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