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The Loan Collection was devoted to works by the 

 Old Masters. These were arranged on the wall with 

 regard to the various Schools of Painting they repre- 

 sented, thus :— Dutch, 40; Flemish, 14; Italian, 30; 

 Spanish, 5 ; French, 5 ; German, 1 ; English, 40. There 

 were also 2$ modern paintings, 52 Turner drawings, 15 

 water-colour paintings and 24 engravings, making a 

 total of 239 pictures on loan. They were contributed 

 in the following manner, viz.: — 187 from private 

 collectors, 52 from the National Gallery, 4 from Cor- 

 poration Art Galleries, 4 from other Art Galleries, 

 and 2 from the Society of Merchant Venturers. Thus, 

 with the addition of the 105 pictures in the Permanent 

 Collection, there were in all 354 works on Exhibition. 



The total number of visitors to this Exhibition was 

 97o34i an d 2,071 Catalogues were sold. 



Sixth Loan Exhibition. — The Sixth Exhibition 

 lasted from 1st May to 30th September, during which 

 time it was inspected by no fewer than 170,357 persons. 



The Loan Collection was formed of a selection of 

 paintings by Modern Artists, the main feature being a 

 number of important subject pictures by the late Edwin 

 Long, R.A., which were hung together on the walls of 

 Gallery IV. 



The entire Exhibition was constituted as follows : — 

 Permanent Collection, 107 ; Loans from Private Col- 

 lectors, 113; Loans from Corporation Galleries, 11 ; 

 Turner Drawings from the National Gallery, 52 ; 

 making a total of 283 exhibited works. 



Amongst the paintings by Edwin Long the follow- 

 ing are noteworthy, viz. : — "The Parable of the Sower," 

 "The Crown of Justification," " Pharaoh's Daughter — 

 The Finding of Moses," " The Raising of Jairus's 

 Daughter," " An Eastern Offering," and the portraits of 



