30 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1947 



portrait of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Thomas E. Stephens, to 

 be held for a National Portrait Gallery. On May 6, 1947, the Board 

 of Trustees accepted two paintings, "Love as Conqueror" and "Love as 

 Folly," by Jean-Honore Fragonard, from Miss Jean Simpson ; a por- 

 trait of Captain Charles Stewart, by Thomas Sully, from Mrs. Maude 

 Monell Vetlesen ; and also resolved to accept a bust of John Muir, by 

 Edwin Keith Harkness, from Mrs. lone Bellamy Harkness, to be 

 held for a National Portrait Gallery. The Board of Trustees also 

 on May 6, 1947, recorded their prior acceptance from Mrs. Frederica 

 R. Giles of a painting entitled "Ships in the Scheldt Estuary," by 

 Abraham Storck. 



GIFTS or DEX»BATIVB ABT8 



On November 25, 1946, the Board of Trustees accepted from Mrs. 

 Lessing J. Rosenwald a miniature painting, on ivory, of Maria Miles 

 Heyward, by Edward Greene Malbone, which was accompanied by a 

 pin with a painting of an eye of Maria Miles Heyward, by Malbone. 



GIFTS OF FEINTS AND DRAWINGS 



The Board of Trustees, on August 8, 1946, accepted a collection of 

 273 prints and drawings bequeathed by Mrs. Addie Burr Clark, a 

 further gift of 255 prints and drawings from Lessing J. Rosenwald, 

 and 3 prints, En Ballade, by Constantine Guys, Head and Bust of a 

 Woman, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Le Stryge, by Meryon, from 

 Myron A. Hofer. On November 25, 1946, the Board of Trustees ac- 

 cepted from Myron A. Hofer a print. Morgue, by Meryon. On January 

 7, 1947, the Board of Trustees accepted a further gift of 399 prints 

 and drawings from Lessing J. Rosenwald, and an engraved portrait of 

 Charles I of England, by Vorsterman, from Willis Ruffner. The 

 Board of Trustees on May 6, 1947, accepted from an anonymous donor 

 a mezzotint entitled "The Mill," by Charles Turner, after Rembrandt. 



GUTS TO THE INDBX OF AMERICAN DESIGN 



The Board of Trustees, on May 6, 1947, accepted from Albert Lewin 

 40 water-color drawings by Perkins Harnly for the Index of American 

 Design. 



EXCHANGE OF WOEKS OF AET 



The Board of Trustees during the fiscal year 1947 accepted the offer 

 of Lessing J. Rosenwald to exchange an engraving by Schongauer en- 

 titled "Crucifixion," two lithographs by Wliistler entitled "Study" and 

 "Lady Haden," and an engraving by Brosamer entitled "Christ on 

 Cross," for superior impressions of like engravings and lithographs 

 now included in the Rosenwald Collection at the National Gallery of 

 Art. 



