HC Deb 16 March 1886 vol 303 cc976-7
MR. RUSTON (Lincoln)

asked the honourable Member for North West Staffordshire, Whether it is a fact that the picture by John Constable, R.A., called the "Hay Wain," recently exhibited at Burlington House, has been presented by its owner to the Nation?

THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HENRY H. FOWLER) (Wolverhampton, E.)

I am glad to be able to inform the hon. Member that Mr. Henry Vaughan has presented this picture to the nation, and that it has been hung in the National Gallery this morning.