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ber of paintings exhibited was 159, of which 131 were the property 

 of the Gahery, the remainder being loans. There were also a few 

 pieces of sculpture belonging to the Harriet Lane Johnston collection. 

 The Evans collection occupied four rooms and a large amount of 

 corridor space; the Harriet Lane Johnston collection, one room; a 

 loan by Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson, one room; and the other Gallery 

 possessions and loans, the remaining room and corridor walls and also 

 the northern outer surface of the general inclosure. The large deco- 

 rative painting by Mr. John Elliott, entitled "Diana of the Tides," 

 elsewhere described, was likewise included in the exhibition. A cata- 

 logue of the collection was printed for gratuitous distribution. 



Again, on the afternoon of May 17, 1910, the Gallery was specially 

 opened from 4.30 to 6 o'clock for the benefit of the members of the 

 American Federation of Arts, which was then holding its first annual 

 convention in Washington, and on the same day the Secretary of 

 the Institution addressed the Federation on the subject of the 

 National Gallery. 



A Museum bulletin of 140 pages issued during the 3^ear treats in a 

 historical way of the collections of art of all kinds acquired by the 

 museums under Government control from the founding of the Na- 

 tional Institute in 1840, and concludes with an illustrated catalogue of 

 the paintings in the National Gallery on July 1, 1909. According to 

 this publication, the National Gallery had, during the preceding three 

 years, been the recipient of three important collections of paintings, 

 one bequeathed by Harriet Lane Johnston, the others presented by 

 Mr. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, and Mr. William T. Evans, of New 

 York. It was also in possession of a number of paintings derived 

 from other sources, and had been fortunate in securing several inter- 

 esting loans. The bulletin likewise records many additional paintings, 

 mainly portraits, and other objects of art, associated with the his- 

 torical collections of the Museum or belonging to the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



The collection of Harriet Lane Johnston, who died on July 3, 1903, 

 came into the possession of the Gallery under a decree of the Supreme 

 Court of the District of Columbia, dated July 11, 1906, wliich inter- 

 preted that part of Mi's, Johnston's will relating to the collection 

 favorably to the contention of the Government, based upon the act 

 of Congress of 1846 founding the Smithsonian Institution. Received 

 and placed on exhibition in August, it contains the following paint- 

 ings: ''Madonna and Child," by Bernardino Luini; "Portrait of Mrs. 

 Hammond," by Sir Joshua Reynolds; "Portrait of Miss Kirkpat- 

 rick," by George Romney; "Portrait of Lady Essex as Juliet," by Sir 

 Thomas Lawrence; "Portrait of Mrs. Abington," by John Hoppner; 

 "Portrait of Miss Murray," by Sir William Beechey; "Portrait of 

 the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)," by Sir John Watson Gor- 



