ART GALLERY. 



Three Exhibitions have been held in the Galleries during the 

 year. They are as follows, with their respective total attendances of 

 visitors : — 



Autumn Exhibition of Modern Art, 10,427 visitors. 



Spring Exhibition of British Water-Colours, 8,082 visitors. 



Summer Exhibition of Italian Art, 16,594 visitors. 



It is proposed to hold a Spring Exhibition of Water-Colour 

 Drawings, mainly by local and provincial artists, in 1913. 



A valuable gift of two Mezzotints after works by Wright of 

 Derby has been given by Col. W. Wright Bemrose, V.D., to form a 

 nucleus for a collection of similar engravings of the works of the great 

 Derby artist. Two important loans of pictures by Wright of 

 Derby, have been made, namely, three portraits of the Wood family of 

 Swanwick Hall, deposited for a period of some years by Mrs. A. R. 

 Poole and Mr. H. E. Wood, and the famous masterpiece of the same 

 artist, " The Air-pump," which has been kindly lent b}' the Trustees 

 of the National Gallery. 



I remain. Gentlemen, 



Yours obediently, 



G. H. DUTTUN, 



Curator and Sccrclary. 

 October 2>\sL 1912 



