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by Liidolf Backliuysen; seated figure of a Turk, by Eugene Dela- 

 croix; portrait of John Head, by Gilbert Stuart; and the portrait 

 of A Lady, by Gilbert Stuart; bequest of George H, Story. The 

 Philistines Attacked with the Plague, by Nicolas Poussin — sketch 

 for the large painting in the Louvre, Paris ; gift of W. H. Holmes. 

 Two paintings by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, Wild Parsley and 

 Une Martyre; gift of Richard Ball Dodson. 



ART WORKS ADDED DURING THE TEAR 



The permanent accessions for the year are limited in number and 

 are as follows : 



Four paintings, the bequest of George H. Story: Portrait of A 

 Lady and portrait of John Head, by Gilbert Stuart; panel by 

 Eugene Delacroix; The Storm, by Ludwig (Ludolf) Backhuysen. 



Two paintings by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847-1906) : Wild 

 Parsley, painted at Belvedere, Brighton, England, being a study for 

 the foreground of The Annunciation, a painting now in the Penn- 

 sylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and Une Martyre 

 (Saint Thecla), exhibited in the Paris and Munich Salons of 1891. 

 Gift of Richard Ball Dodson, Esq., Brighton, England. 



Portrait in pastel by Walter Beck of the naturalist, John Bur- 

 roughs, painted at Woodchuck Lodge, Delaware County, N. Y., in 

 1912. Gift of " an admirer of John Burroughs." 



L'Empereur, a large canvas by J. Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), 

 representing the bronze statue of Napoleon projected against a bril- 

 liant sunset, received at the gallery as a loan from the artist in 1913. 

 Presented by Mrs. J. Carroll Beckwith in 1924. 



The First Gun at Fort Sumter, by Alban Jasper Conant (1821- 

 1915), a large canvas in which the portrait of Maj. Robert Anderson. 

 United States Army, standing, is projected against a great gun in 

 action. Major Anderson was in command at Fort Sumter upon its 

 surrender in 1861 and was one of the founders of the United States 

 Soldiers' Home, Washington, D. C. Gift of the Hon. Larz Anderson 

 " in anticipation of the day when there shall be a national portrait 

 gallery." 



The Philistines Attacked with the Plague, by Nicolas Poussin — 

 sketch for the large painting in the Louvre, Paris. Gift of AV. H. 

 Holmes. 



LOANS ACCEPTED BY THE GALLERY 



Mrs. Ralph Cross Johnson deposited a collection of 11 early 

 Christian paintings, referred to as "primitives," by Italian, Dutch, 

 Flemish, and Spanish masters, and indicates her intention to make 



