Show Britons Send Costly Pictures to Colony to Establish Gallery Shiploads of Art Treasures Worth Tr Secretly Landed at Capetown I LO T T ONDON DON Sept 2 Word Word has hns been bean JJ LJ received ed here of ot the safe sare arrival ar x rival at Capetown n of It three vessels laden with worth of ot pictures pie pic tures secretly sent out from London London London Lon Lon- don and that are to constitute a n national art gallery galler for South Africa The pictures represent a n. collection collection tion purchased ed in 1913 b by Max ax Michaelis the Rand magistrate who was wa-s seeking a means menns of ot re recording recording recording re- re cording his affection for tor the country country coun coun- try tn of ot his earlier years ears with the gift The gift has ben delayed In England first In order that a galler gallery gallery gal gal- ler lery might be bo prepared to re receive ele them and then by the outbreak of ot the war Tho paintings have hn now been transported to Capetown b by a a. generous at nt his own ex ex- pense lense It was after tho the late lato Sir Hugh HuSh Lane a victim icUm of the Lusitania took out to Johannesburg a n collection collection tion OJ of modern paintings that the leading man of ot the Dutch population population population tion expressed enthusiasm and a desire for tor examples of ot th the art of their own great gf at ancestors tors In a n gallery gallery gal gal- al- al lery lerO of ot their own Following this Sir Hugh made the collection that has Just been received In South Africa and Mr Michaelis purchased It promptly With Rembrandt Franz Hals and the great grent Little Masters Master Dutch art was at its zenith at the very cn time of ot the foundation of Capetown and when whon the prestige of ot tho the Dutch East India company compan was wasat wasat wasat at Its hel height ht Tho collection contains contains contains con con- ono one of ot the tho finest works b by Frans rans Hals In existence In tho the portrait portrait portrait por por- trait of ot an Old from the Kann collection The lowest estimate of oC its value luo Is about in There Thero are aro sixty eight pictures all each a Dutch work of the seventeenth seventeenth sev soY century Notable is Gabriel Metsu's Motsu's The Des Desert rt from the Harrowby collection and Jan JanSteen's JanSteen's JanSteen's Steens Steen's Tho The Dancing Dog Do a tavern tavern em ern scene from the Coote collee- collee tion There are two large Important tent tant works t s by the landscape paint paint- ter and also a a. landscape b by Hobbema and one by De Two sea ea pieces b by Van Yan Soyen Soven arc aro Included miraculous still life works b by Van Yan Beyeren and a full full- length portrait b by Van Yan D Dyck ck There TIters are works b by Ter Borch man mart Du Jardin etc In Capetown an old Dutch house of ot tho the seventeenth century with furniture of ot the period has been restored an and arranged as a home I for tor the collection j |