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year, 5 in number, and with one exception consisting of oil paintings, 

 were as follows : 



H. Hobart Nichols. Moonrise at Ogunquit. 



Henry Oliver Walker. Portrait of Mrs. William T. Evans and 

 Son. 



Wyatt Eaton (1849-1896). Portrait of William T. Evans. 



J. Alden Weir. Portrait of Wyatt Eaton. 



J. Scott Hartley (1845-1912). Bronze portrait bust, inscribed 

 " William Thomas Evans MCMIV." 



The following were the other gifts : 



Samuel Isham (1855-1914). Wooded landscape. Oil painting. 

 Eeceived from the estate of the artist in accordance with his wishes, 

 through Mrs. Julia Isham Taylor, executrix. 



Elizabeth Nourse. Fisher Girl of Picardy. Oil painting. Pre- 

 sented by Mrs. Elizabeth C. Pilling, of Washington, in memory of 

 her husband, the late John Walter Pilling. 



Alfredo Helsby. Full Moon, a landscape at Limache, Chile. Oil 

 painting. Presented by the Embassy of Chile at Washington, 

 through Seiior Don Eduardo Suarez-Mujica, Ambassador. 



Paul W. Bartlett. Original plaster model of the bronze eques- 

 trian statue of Lafayette erected in the Square of the Louvre, Paris, 

 France, in 1900, as a testimonial from the school children of the 

 United States. Gift of the artist. 



Henry Hudson Kitson. Bronze bust of the Eight Honorable, the 

 Viscount Bryce, O. M., Ambassador of Great Britain to the United 

 States, 1907-1913. Gift of the artist, by whom it was modeled ex- 

 pressly for the Gallery. 



Vinnie Ream Hoxie (1847-1914). Full-length statue of the 

 goddess Sappho, in white marble, typifying the Muse of Poetry, 

 modeled between 1865 and 1870. Gift of Brig. Gen. Eichard L. 

 Hoxie, U. S. Army (retired). 



William Eimmer (1821-1879). Original cast in plaster of the 

 statue of The Falling Gladiator. Gift of Miss Caroline Hunt 

 Eimmer, of Lexington, Mass., daughter of the sculptor. 



The loans to the Gallery, received from 14 sources, aggregated 121 

 paintings, 2 bronzes and 2 plaster casts, a total of 125 pieces; and 

 as the number withdrawn amounted to only 67 pieces, there was a 

 net increase in the loan collections at the close of the year of 58 ex- 

 amples. As a complete list of the loans exhibited during the year 

 is given further on, the year's temporary acquisitions will be only 

 briefly referred to in this connection. 



The special loan of which mention has already been made was an 

 exhibition of 27 portraits, representing 23 artists, from the National 

 Association of Portrait Painters, which continued from March 6 to 

 April 7, 1915, and of which a special view, by invitation, was held 



