Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Rubens found in Harringay Second-hand Shop

This from the North London Mercury and Crouch End Echo on September 22, 1900. 353 Green Lanes is a few shops down from The Beaconsfield and was, till recently, Sika Asian Food store.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on March 11, 2019 at 8:45

It would be interesting to know if this was actually a real Rubens- I did a quick look up to see what the image was, and found the wiki page very bare...

Apparently..." It was rediscovered at the start of the twentieth century by the art historian Roberto Longhi", so no credit for Mr WH Smith then...

However, when you look for the image online it appears to be in many places, possibly at once. So, I suspect Mr Rubens did not create the one image, but it was a bit of a theme of his, painting a great many of the same title?

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on March 11, 2019 at 8:55

Certainly a poor neighbour to Edward Gray's fantastic art collection. Gray built up huge collections of fine art, antique books and rare plants. Both his art and plant collections became famous. On his death is art collection was described by art expert William Buchanan as "one of the finest small collections of pictures in the country". See one of my Wikipedia articles for more. I've also collected together in a virtual gallery, a very small part of the Harringay collection here on HoL.