The Museum and Art Gallery.—The committee has just acquired two new
paintings, firstly a portrait of the late chairman, Sir James G. Lee
Steere, K.C.M.G., by Miss Florence A. Fuller, of Perth. The likeness is
excellent, the more especially as the painter had to rely on photographs
and hints from friends of the late Speaker. This work has greatly pleased
those visitors who have seen it. The second acquisition is a landscape in
oils by Harpsau, the scene of which is probably in the valley of the
Loire, the garden of France. It is painted after the manner of the
Barbizon school, of which Carot and Daubigny were two great leaders. The
committee has also purchased a watercolour of “Red Roses,” by Miss F. J.
Bayfield, of Norwich. This work, which has been on loan for some time, was
originally exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1894.
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