WALKER ART GALLERY. 



A quarter of a century lias almost passed since the opening of the 

 Walker Art Gallery. On September Gtli next it will have attained 

 iis Silver Anniversary. The Curator regards this as a fitting time 

 to place on record the results of its operations so far. 



Since the opening of the Gallery in 1877. the Corporation has 

 acquired between seven and eight hundred works of art, including 

 purchases, gifts, bequests and works deposited: the money value, 

 estimated for the purpose of insurance, amounts to over £100,000. 

 The Gallery having been built by the munificence of the late Sir A. 

 B. Walker, Bart., and the pictures purchased being the outcome of 

 the profits on Exhibitions, the whole, both the building and its 

 contents, has been acquired by the City without cost to the ratepayers. 



The Collection is now esteemed as being the finest Gallery of 

 Modern Art out of the Metropolis. The quality of the works 

 acquired has attracted the favourable notice of the art world, and 

 from year to year there has been a growing demand for privileges 

 to reproduce examples in art magazines, &c, with the result that the 

 Collection has attained a high reputation, not only in the United 

 Kingdom, but on the Continent and in America. 



During the past year the Committee have granted permission for 

 the reproduction of 110 works. Mr. Richard Brown, of Liverpool, 

 has published a considerable number of carbon prints of the principal 

 works, and Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode, of London, besides their 

 Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection, have also published repro- 

 ductions, by the "Rembrandt" process, in various sizes, which are 

 circulated throughout the kingdom through the medium of the 

 printsellers. Messrs. Cassell cv Co. have included coloured repro- 

 ductions in their series of " The Nation's Best Pictures," and the 

 publication, in monthly parts, of the " Hundred Best Pictures," by 

 Messrs. Charles Letts & Co., includes works from the Permanent 

 Collection. 



