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of Sciences and Director of the National Gallery of Art. His varied 

 activities in these fields are recorded in upward of 50 annual reports 

 made to the departments with which he served. 



AKT WORKS RECEIVED DURING THE TEAR 



Accessions of art works by the Smithsonian Institution, subject to 

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

 mittee of the National Gallery of Art Commission, are as follows : 



Portrait statue (heroic size, full length) of Col. Archibald Grade, 

 4th, hero of the Titanic disaster, 1914, by Louise Kidder Sparrow. 

 Gift of Mrs. Archibald Gracie, 4th. 



Portrait of Commodore Stephen Decatur by Gilbert Stuart; be- 

 queathed to the Smithsonian Institution for the National Gallery of 

 Art by the late William Decatur Parsons. (Accepted by the com- 

 mission December 9, 1930.) 



Portrait of Henry Ward Eanger by Albert Niehuys (Dutch 

 artist) ; presented by Frederick Ballard Williams, N. A. 



Original plaster bust of Abraham Lincoln (heroic size) from 

 which was cast the bronze bust erected at the National Cemetery, 

 Gettysburg, Pa., by Henry K. Bush-Brown; gift of the sculptor. 

 This bust has been in the gallery for several years as a loan. 



A group of three wood-gravure tablets engraved directly from life 

 and nature by Macowin Tuttle : Portrait of a Lady, Snowbound 

 (winter landscape), and Spring Brook (spring landscape). Gift of 

 Mr. Tuttle. 



Painting entitled " Late Afternoon, the Alcazar, at Segovia, one 

 of the picturesque medieval castles of Spain," by Wells M. Sawyer. 

 Gift of the artist. 



Marble bust of William H. Seward, made in Rome in 1871 by 

 Giovannie Maria Benzoni (1809-1873), " as a gift in memory of his 

 daughter, Olive Risley Seward " ; also the framed oil painting by 

 Emanuel Leutzo (1816-1868), sketch from which he made the fresco 

 in the Capitol Building at AVashington, D. C, known as " Westward 

 the Course of Empire Takes its Way," and presented to William H. 

 Seward by the artist. Bequest of Miss Sara Carr Upton. 



Portrait of William Henry Holmes, first director of the National 

 Gallery of Art, by William Spencer Bagdatopoulos in 1929 ; presented 

 by the artist. 



LOANS ACCEPTED BY THE GALLERY 



Painting by Bonif accio entitled " Supper at Emmaus " ; lent by 

 Benjamin Warder Thoron, of Washington, D. C, through Mrs. 

 Henry Leonard. 



Portrait of Henry Ward Ranger, N. A., by Alphonse Jongers, 

 N. A. ; lent by the Council of the National Academy of Design, New 

 York, N. Y. 



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