76 THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 



SOM© OP THE ACQUISITIONS SINCE 1 865 



Benefactors of the Institution 



JAMES SMITHSON: 



In academic cap and gown, at the age of probably 25 years; water 

 color on board, 7 by 6 inches; signed "Bone." Purchased by the 

 Institution in 1887 of James Gunn, London. 



Portrait. By L. Moeller. Crayon bust. 30 by 25 inches. Appar- 

 ently copied from the miniature by Johns. 



Memorial tablet. By William Ordway Partridge, 1896. A bronze 

 copy is in the English church at Genoa, Italy, where Smithson was 

 buried and where his body remained until brought to Washington 

 in 1904. A plaster and a marble copy are at the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. 39 by 28>^ inches. 



THOMAS GEORGE HODGKINS. By Robert Gordon Hardie. Portrait. 

 Oil on canvas. 36 by 26 inches. Signed. 



ROBERT STANTON AVERY. Crayon bust. 



Regents of the Institution 



Besides many photographs of Regents, the Institution pos- 

 sesses a few oil paintings and crayon portraits of deceased 

 members of the Board, The paintings are as follows : 



RICHARD RUSH. By T. W. Wood, January, 1856. Three-quarters 

 length. Oil on canvas. 40^^ by 30^^ inches. 



CORNELIUS CONWAY FELTON. Bust. Oil on canvas. 34 by 27 

 inches. 



LOUIS AGASSIZ. By W. Ingalls. Bust. Oil on canvas. 36 by 30 

 inches. Signed. 



The crayon portraits, mostly on a photographic base, are of 

 Alexander Dallas Bache, Salmon Portland Chase, Henry Coppee, 

 George Mifflin Dallas, Nathaniel Cobb Deering, Millard Fill- 

 more, Asa Gray, John Maclean, Justin Smith Morrill, Peter 

 Parker, William Tecumseh Sherman, Roger Brooke Taney, 

 Morrison Remick Waite. Of W. W. Seaton there are a wash 

 drawing, and a medallion head, bas-relief, in plaster, by Henry 

 D. Saunders. 



