34 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1920. 



and especiall}' to the manner of their presentation to the puhlic. The 

 additions were not numerous, but comprise works and objects of ver}' 

 considerable museum vahie not, however, comparable in importance 

 with the accessions of the year before. Twenty works of painting and 

 sculpture were added, including eight loans. A model in plaster of a 

 monument entitled " The Victory of Liberty " by Branko Dechko- 

 vitch, the Jugo-Slay sculptor, accepted by the President in Paris, 

 France, as a gift to the United States, was received by the Museum 

 through the Department of State. Of \evy great historical and gen- 

 eral interest is the full-length statue in white marble by Mr. Francis 

 Derwent Wood, R. A., of William Pitt, gift of the Duchess of 

 jMarlborough and other American w^omen in Great Britain. Deeply 

 incised on the gray marble base is the inscription : " This statue of 

 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, the British champion of American 

 Liberty, presented by American women living in the United King- 

 dom as a memorial of the hundred years peace between the two 

 kindred nations & as an expression of their love for the land of 

 their birth and the land of their adoption. 1815-1915." Among 

 the accessions of particular importance are two pieces of sculpture, 

 the gift of Mrs. Benjamin H. Warder: "The Greek Slave" by 

 Pliram Powers, a superb work, understood to be one of the several 

 replicas made by Powers with the assistance of a skilled Florentine 

 sculptor, the dimensions being three-fourtlis that of the original; 

 the second is a charming work, "The Sleeping Children" by Wil- 

 liam Rinehart, Rome, 1869. A conspicuous and very welcome 

 o-ift durinjr the year is the " Portrait of a Lady " by Andres Zorn, 

 1900, done in his very brilliant style. The Gallery is further 

 enriched by a " Portrait of John Muir," explorer, naturalist and 

 author, by Orlando Rouland, the gift of Mrs. E. H. Harriman; 

 and a half-length portrait of the Hon. Andrew D. White, by G. 

 Stanley Middleton, gift of Mr. Clifford D. Middleton. Additional 

 works are an oil painting by George Inness entitled " Elf Ground," 

 gift of Mrs. Emily K. Andrews; and a portrait of Gen. Albert J. 

 Myer, first Chief Signal Officer of the U. S. Army and founder 

 of the U. S. Weather Bureau, by George P. A. Healy, bequest of 

 his daughter. Miss Viola Walden IMyer. The following were re- 

 ceived as loans: An oil painting "Portrait of San Lorenzo Guistini- 

 ano," attributed to Gentile Bellini, presented to the American Red 

 Cross by the City of Venice as a token of gratitude for the Avork 

 of the American Red Cross during the war with German}-, lent 

 by the American Red Cross through Mr. Stockton Axson, chairman 

 of the Red Cross Museum committee; an oil painting entitled "The 

 Philistines Attacked with the Plague" by Nicolas Poussin, color 

 sketch for his large picture in the Louvre, collection of Louis XIV, 

 lent by Dr. W. PI. Holmes; an oil painting "The HoW Famih^," 



