{"id":316198,"date":"2025-12-14T21:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316198\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:34:16","slug":"council-to-sell-painting-to-help-fund-farnham-museum-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316198\/","title":{"rendered":"Council to sell painting to help fund Farnham Museum restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leader of the council, Paul Follows, said: &#8220;Members of the executive will be well aware of the Cornish Fisher Folk painting that we have in our possession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is not a joke item, this is very much a real painting that the council possesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Investigations discovered the picture was sold in 1910 for \u00a3100. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the owner passed away, it was given to a second owner who subsequently bequeathed it to Godalming Parish Council, a forerunner of WBC in 1920.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1974, when the borough was created, Cornish Fisher Folk was given to Waverley, with other paintings allotted to Godalming Town Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leader of the council, Paul Follows, said: &#8220;Members of the executive will be well aware of the Cornish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-316198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}