Appeal helps museum buy paintings

Supporters of a museum near Bath have helped pay for two historicpaintings.

A total of pounds300 was donated to the Bradford on Avon Museumto help acquire two early 19th-century paintings of the area.

The museum will now buy the prints by Jean Claude Nattes, whichshow the Dundas Aqueduct and Barton Bridge, from local art dealerAndrew Dando.

It has already received a grant offer of pounds400 from theVictoria and Albert Purchase Grant Fund towards buying the artworksand launched an appeal to complete the pounds700 needed.

Bradford on Avon Museum Society chairman Mervyn Harris said: "Thescenes were painted by the artist Jean Claude Nattes, who was …