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Gbe IReport of tbe Supertntenoent of tbe 

 Hrt (Sailer^ ano fIDuseum of antiquitiee. 



REVIEW OF THE YEAR. 



Pictures, &c, received from the 

 Fine Arts Academy. 



Pictures by deceased artists at the Bristol Fine Arts 

 Academy, including the Sharpies Collection of pastel 

 portraits and paintings, have been transferred to the 

 Gallery, under conditions, as a Permanent Loan. 



The small Ante-room has been given up for the 

 exhibition of the famous pastel drawings by James 

 Sharpies, the miniatures and needlework pictures by 

 Mrs. Sharpies, and some of the paintings by Miss Rolinda 

 Sharpies. 



The Committee have had a suitable stained glass 

 window inserted in the place of the plain glass one, thus 

 concealing the unsightly outlook over the adjacent roofs. 

 The remainder of the Sharpies and other pictures have 

 principally been hung in Gallery V. 



Ninth Loan Exhibition. 



The 9th Loan Exhibition, being the 2nd Circulating 

 Collection of Water-Colours of the British School from 

 the Victoria and Albert Museum, was much appreciated 

 by students of art, and others, who were enabled to 

 trace the rise and progress of water-colour painting to 

 some extent, by the chronological sequence of the 

 examples as hung on the walls. They comprised 139 



