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£5 PORTRAIT mother boughHT FOR FATHER WAS A FAMILY JOKE FOR 50 YEARS
Art 'Detectives' Probe £30,000 Find
MR WINDER IS SURE IT'S LOST REMBRANDT
London.
ART restorer Mr Reg Winder went to look at
some free picture frames. He came away with a portrait which has now been insured for £30,000.
The picture used to hang on the study wall in the Palace Terrace Gardens, Kensington, home of Major Hubert C. Corlette, late of the lat King Edward's Horse.
It was the Corlette family joke, father's insistence that..
the portrait, of a young woman, was a Rembrandt. No one believed he was right.
First Portrait
Until last week (18 months after Major Corlette died and 52 years after it was bought for £5 in London), when urt experts said:
"Tests have proved it could be a Rembrandt. If it is, it will be one of the most interesting of them all.... the first portrait of the woman who became his wife."
The £30,000 insurance has been taken out pending con-
clusive examination.
Already there has been a double probe into its authenti-
city.
Typical Sweep
By X-ray: The sweep of the shoulder, seen under poor restoration work done in 1911, is seen as a typical Rembrandt sweep.
By ultra-viole test: The canvas on which it is painted is
GIRL EATS at least 300 years old, and 12
The
VILLAGE
BARE
Rome. phenomenal *p petite of one tiny Italian girl has swal lowed the finances of
same type used in Rembrandt's day; a Rembrandt signature
is
in the bottom left-hand corner.
Major Corlette, architect of
AT WORK: Restorer Mr Goodall. ON THE EASEL: Portrait of Saskia. INSET:
marty public buildings, including Robin Hood
his
the Kensington War Memorial, was given the portrait by wife in 1905. After his death in April lost year-he was 85-It went with other property to a [converted garage store in Ciap-
ham.
Suspected
It was there that Mr Winder. of Montagu Square, Marylebone
her village, split the went to look at the pleture which the Corletie community, and frames landed her father in family maid he could have for
gaol.
Luciana
Barboni has to cal Very two huurs, Every tiny she
at least necds
A dozen bumanas, two large steaks, and a pile of rice.
The hunger is an oversized colon. Despite all she cuts, she is still smaller than other girls of her. ape.
cause
آن
Luciana's
Surgeons believe they
ean
cure her, but no operation can be attempted before she is 12.
LUCIANA BARIONI
Meanwhile, in the Lombardy village of Casaleita Ceredano, .her mother is trying to food Luciana and seven other children on a charity bllowance of 10s, a day.'
ANGRY WORDS
Couldn't Save This Little John
London.
The world of make-believe seemed real to ten-year- old Robert Hugh Woodall. One night he watched a TV found instead "Father's serial about Robin Hood. In it Rembrumit." AL
he Little John was saved by Robin he was about to be suspected it to be an original Hood as painting of Saskia, Rembrandt's hanged. wealthy wife.
nothing
He
unce
Saskia was the model-and many the subject of Bertrandi's best-known and valuable paintings.
The
night Robert's next mother, Mrs Doreen Woodall, of Lansdowne Close, Malvern, found him dead,
He was hanging from
the
Mr Winder took the portrait knob of a cupboard in his bed-
to his studio. There last week roomTI. partner, Mr Stewart his Goodall, said:
Similarity
HIGHLY STRUNG
Robert's father, Mr Stanley Woodall, told a Malvern inquest thut his son was inclined to be highly strung. He was imaging- tive and often played malte-
The similarity between this and other known portraits of Saskia positively proves that it believe,
she and the Tanveg
Js
and
the age of
"He was the type of boy who, BOZTIC of Leif he played Robin Hood, war work make it impossible for it Robin Hood; if he played Sir to be a copy."
Lancelot, he was Sir Lancelot,"
The Major's”, son, Mr John old Mr Woodall, Cerlatte said: "If it is by Police Constable C. Roberts Rembrandt or one of his pupils, said he found a notebook in the I shall sell ...."
dead boy's bedroom. In, it was
a drawing of someone hanging from a cupboard door
0.3
A National Gallery official malitz
"A good Rembrandt
fetch as could
much £50,000."
Verdict: Death by Misadven ture.
Saskia in detail.—Keystone Photo.
PISA LEANS AND
AROUND THE OLD WORLD
By HALE MONTGOMERY
Topeka, Kan.
Several years ago, when it "Around the Old World
became obvious that she needed
a king-size diet, her father,
Vittorio, appealed for public ald.
The villagers were generous. The family was given aredit Vittorio at the village stores.
Ianded a £9-0-wcek job in hearby Milan.
Vitorio appealed to Mayor Glovanni Campari
for
F
ON 20 SHARES!
on 20 Shares" could about 130 sketches and a ton-seck skill, inspiration, stim-
tract
for 10. full
"Theulation and subject matter for be the
of title
Benevolent 20," or be calls his his profession as a painter ... ... ... ...
Hunt landed at. Rotterdam paintings now being shareholders. produced by an enter Each stockholder gets Doc ull after a tourist-class Arip on an train to Hunt in return ocean liner, took a prising Topeka artist-pating from
for investment.
Italy where he spent 22 day?
teacher.
"I just keep painting until just wandering around," spent
R. J. Hunt's bold venturo they are satisfied," sald the 36-20 days drifting around Spain, headed for southern I must deliver Franco and back into the moun more involved financing his 10-year-old artist-entrepreneur. then
Technically,
eachtains of northern Spain. painting to stockholder in one year's time."
The contract for the "Hunt European Painting Group" was formally
by drawn up
of Law on
help-In vain. Angry words week tour of Europe by one oil followed and Vittorio lost hiselling shares. in himself. temper. He gave the mayor beating and was gaeled for He sold 20 shares for
'assault.
Mrs Rosa Barbant was urged
Π
to place. Laiclana in a foster home but refused.
HK$900 each.
AESTHETIC FEAST
With the $18,000, à musette bagstuffed with
tho
Professor Washburn - staff.
LEFT-FIELD
The Jaen, was
Sort
of a left
SKETCHING
Then came more' pen-peneli- wash sketches on a trip to Paris,
sketching in the mornings, touring around in the afternoons.
It was simple getting around,
Lonely Women sketch équipment and a field inspiration," Hunt enid. he said. "I just askedig knew
Berlin.
Berlin till is the elty of lonely women
•
I
chap
war airplus canvas autocher salaries don't go very little classroom French a case, Hunt could treat him- far so we have to work out little GI Italian
might know
words of nfow self to an aesthetic feast of something for the summers." European scenery and cul- The contract he made with Italan, French or English and In West, Berlin there ` are
his stockholders roads in part; you finally get what you want"
relut Since his
Isto in 200,000 more women than men. ture during his summerThe members agree that the
TRUNG THUỐC de the Of these, 300,00 are between 20 time teaching luil
and oil and has 18 to go and 16. 1h the age group from Now that he's back on the the shares at his wilmoted of August, Hunt has #nished two 27 to 20. there are 1,200 women job es estant Professor of uncontrolled discretion for the could find "a" for every 1,000 non-United Art at Washburn University purpose touring Europe: fr | again," he said, buy wouldn' Pross
*ntro, Bunt has à satchel fill" of } the summer of 1907, there to hesitate, Unfied Press,
way
AND LEANS, AND PEOPLE ARE WORRIED
Rome.
Two suggestions to prevent the leaning tower of Pisa from leaning too far are being studied by Italian Government authorities.
The first plan, submitted by Prof. Giulio Penta, calls for reinforcement of the tower's base by drilling. a series of holes and filling them with cement. This, he says, would reduce the load of the struc- ture on the sinking ground of its foundation,
Radical Remedy
radical
Prof. Armando Donato suggested the more.
remedy of building a cement platform round the foot of the structure and letting the tower rest.
on a series of horizontal cement cross- pieces anchored to the platform.
were submitted after The suggestionis
newspaper predictions that the tower, one of Italy's biggest tourist
attrac- tions, would collapse at the end of the century if its present rate of slant was not checked.
First Doubts
But the history of the tower, completed in 1350 by architect Tommaso Pisano, is filled with alternate periods of con- carn und optimism. First doubts were voiced in 1550. Since 1907 four gov- errument commissions have studied the problem-with no effect. Various "remedles", including draining off
subterranean waters, and stuffing the subsoll with cement, have all failed. The angle of the tower's lean increases by millimetre every શ soven-tenths of year. United Press.
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