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IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY
BY F.S.S.
“Chaucer at the Court of Edward III” is one of the glories of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales—its chief glory, I should like to say… In his “Chaucer” there is another point of contact of a more whimsical kind to the stranger, but not unimportant to Brown, because it made each work of art a monument to friendship.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 1931
The halls of the National Art Gallery in Sydney were, on this day, nearly deserted. Edna rocked gently back on her heels as she gazed at Chaucer at the Court of Edward III. The oil had been one of the first ever purchased by the gallery and was still the anchor of its European Art collection. Her own artistic tastes lay elsewhere, with the modernist school, but Humphrey Abercrombie seemed more at
