APPENDIX 3 



EEPORT ON THE NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activities 

 of the National Collection of Fine Arts for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1947: 



THE SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION 



The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Com- 

 mission was held on Friday, December 6, 1946, having been postponed 

 from its regular date, the first Tuesday in December. The members 

 assembled at 10 : 30 a. m., in the Smithsonian Building to pass on the 

 works of art which had been offered during the year. The following 

 action was taken : 



Accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts 



Oil painting, Self Portrait, by G. P. A, Healy (1813-94) . Gift of Ruel P. Tolman. 



Oil painting, A Morning in Summer, by Leonard Ochtman, N. A, (1854-1934). 

 Henry Ward Ranger bequest. 



Plaster bust of Charles Henry Niehaus, by Adolph Alexander Weinman, N. A. 

 (1870- ). Gift of Miss Marie J. Niehaus. 



Plaster plaque of Joseph Pennell, by John Flanagan (1865- ). Gift of Miss 

 A. Margaretta Archambault. 



Raku tea bowl, made by Yanagisawa Kien (1703-58). Gift of Miss Catharine 

 McE. Ames. 



Miniature, Portrait of a Man, by George Catlin (1796-1872) . Gift of Bernard N. 

 Burnstine : 



Twenty-two miniatures and one silver medal. Gift of Mrs. Henry DuPr6 

 Bounetheau : 



Mrs. Arthur Middleton (1791-1840) (Alicia Hopton Russell), by Henry B. 



Bounetheau (1797-1877), after tlie original by Andrew Robertson, 1836. 

 Peter Bounetheau In Magistrate's Robes (1742-98), father of the artist, 



by Henry B. Bounetheau, after head of the Benbridge miniature. 

 Peter Bounetheau (1742-98), by Henry Benbridge (1744r-18l2). 

 Mrs. John Middleton (Mary Burroughs), by Henry B. Bounetheau, after 



an English artist. 

 Self Portrait, 1867, after picture when 50 years old, by Henry B. Bounetheau. 

 Mrs. Henry B. Bounetheau (1822-69) (Julia Clarkson DuPr6), by Henry 



B. Bounetheau. 

 Henry DuPr6 Bounetheau, 1849 (1842-1901) , by Henry B. Bounetheau. 

 Mme. Julia DuPrS, about 1830, mother of Mrs. Henry B. Bounetheau, by a 



French artist. 



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