Perth Art Gallery.—The committee which controls the Perth Art Gallery has
purchased three new pictures, which arrived from London last week. The
pictures are a valuable addition to the small but attractive collection at
present 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 Meadows—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 Sates.
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