GREAT PICTURE COLLECTION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2723, 31 January 1910, Page 5

GREAT PICTURE COLLECTION

DISPOSAL OP THE PAINTINGS

United Press Association —Copyright

LONDON, Jan. 23

Two hundred and fifty-one of the pictures bequeathed by the late Mr Salting are now exhibited at Agnew’s. The National Gallery has selected one hundred in addition to the twentyeight already in fits possession. The “Times” suggests that the- residue should find a permanent home in the public galleries of the colony whence Mr Salting derived his wealth. It adds that this suggestion will rest with Mr Arthur Flower, Salting’s executor, to adopt or reject.

[Mr. George Salting was tilie son of an Australian shipowner and sugar planter. He was educated at Eton, and at Sydney University. When a young man he settled in London, living in a West End club. His income was tens of thousands of pounds annually, and he never married. He set out to make a collection of Oriental china, and his collection was considered one of the finest three in the world. It so filled his rooms that there was little space for the owner in them. Thereupon he loaned the collection to tilie South Kensington Museum. Mr. Salting then proceeded to collect old furniture, paintings of various schools, and other objects of art.]