Roberts, David (1796-1864; Scottish)
Interior of the Church of St Anne, Bruges 1851
Oil on canvas, 122.3 x 183.5 cm
Purchased, 1894 (advice of Sir George Verdon)
National Gallery of Victoria (p.402.2-1)

Ursula Hoff notes that this canvas, shown at the Royal Academy in 1851, was bought on the advice of Verdon, during his term as President of the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library (1883-96).

Refs.

AR 1894, p.21; NGV 1905, p.5 (I.La Trobe Gallery, no.8; ill.) [£525] 

See Hoff (1995), pp.247-48 (with details, references); and Gott 19C (2003), p.29 (entry by Ted Gott)