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at any previous period. Paintings of the highest order of merit were 

 chosen, and overcrowding was avoided. Many works are, however, 

 held in reserve, but all of these are hung where they may be seen to 

 advantage by visitors desiring to examine them. 



LABELING OF COLLECTIONS 



Upward of 100 metal labels have been engraved and attached 

 to the frames of the paintings to which they belong. Aside from 

 these labels, all necessarily of small size, and limited to the simplest 

 essentials of record, framed labels giving fuller data are attached to 

 the background in close proximity to the pictures. 



CARE OF COLLECTIONS 



Requisite care has been given to all paintings with respect to repair, 

 restoration, varnishing, and glazing, there remaining unglazed only 

 four works which are of such large size that glass can not be intro- 

 duced. Three paintings requiring expert treatment, Man Wearing 

 a Large Hat, by Rembrandt; portraits of Lord Abercorn, by Law- 

 rence, and of Viscount Hill, by Reynolds, were intrusted to the 

 expert restorer of old masters, Mr. H. E. Thompson, of the Boston 

 Museum of Fine Arts, and have been returned to the gallery in an 

 entirely satisfactory state. 



ART WORKS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR 



Accessions of art works by the Smithsonian Institution, subject to 

 transfer to the National Gallery on approval of the advisory com- 

 mittee of the gallery commission, are as follows : 



Portrait of Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont (1803-1865) by 

 Daniel Huntington, P. N. A. (1816-1906) ; bequest of Mrs. May Du 

 Pont Saulsbury, for the National Portrait Gallery. 



A painting entitled "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone," by 

 Thomas Moran, N. A. (1837-1926); gift of Mr. George Dupont 

 Pratt, of New York City. 



A painting by Belmore Browne (1880-), entitled "The Chief's 

 Canoe," purchased from the Henry Ward Ranger fund by the coun- 

 cil of the National Academy of Design, trustees of the fund, and as- 

 signed to the gallery. 



Thirty-six pieces of porcelain including pate-sur-pate by Solon 

 and his pupil, A. Birks ; Old Worcester ware ; Hall porcelain ; Meis- 

 sen; and Capo di Monto, Doccia, and other Italian porcelains. Gift 

 of Mrs. Alfred Duane Pell as an addition to the Alfred Duane Pell 

 collection. 



