Historical information

Original Painting in Bendigo Art Gallery
PAINTING WON'T
HANG IN MESS
BENDIGO intends to keep its big oil
painting, "Gentlemen - the Queen,"
hanging in the Shamrock Hotel in Pall
Mall. i
The painting is on loan
to the hotel from the
Bendigo Art Gallery.
And It's badly wanted at
the officers' mess of the
Royal Australian Artillery,
3rd Div., in Batman av.,
Melbourne.
A formal application for It
was made, In writing, to the
Art Gallery by Brigadier W.
Hall, commanding offlfncer.
But Art Gallery members
at their meeting yesterday
said "No."
Lending it or giving it
away would "create a dan-
gerous precedent for the
Gallery," they decided.
. "Any anyway," said Mr.
W. Little, the Gallery's
curator, "Brig. Hall has
erred in thinking the men
depicted in the painting are
artillerymen.
"They're offlfflcers In the
Duke of Connaught's Light
Infantry."
But in Melbourne last
night Brigadier Hall, keenly
disappointed, said: VI have
been told the picture was
painted in the Royal Artil-
lery mess at Woolwich, In
England.
"I have never dauhted the
men are artillerymen, be-
cause they wear the gun-
ners' blue mess Jacket, scar-
let cuffs and scarlet waist-
coat."
The Argus Tuesday 8 September 1953
Digitalised
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Physical description

Colour print of a painting by Albert Chevallier Taylor in wooden frame Glass fronted

Inscriptions & markings

Copy by Survey Regiment 1986