WALKER ART GALLERY. 



Since the last Annual Keport, the work of the Gallery has 

 proceeded steadily and satisfactorily. Xo Spring Exhibition was 

 held, and the rooms being thus left available, the opportunity was 

 taken to re-arrange the Permanent Collection to greater advantage. 

 The extended space rendered it possible to allow a margin of wall 

 round each picture, the artistic merit of each work being thus made 

 more evident and the appearance of the Collection as a whole greatly 

 enhanced. This re-arrangement shows the necessity for additional 

 rooms, in order that the City Art Treasures may be adequately 

 displayed. 



In addition to this, the rooms have been requisitioned for the display 

 of the Decorations, by C. W. Furse, for the Pendent ives of the Town 

 Hall ; the models and designs for the Liverpool Queen Victoria 

 Memorial ; the Architectural Society's Dinner ; the exhibition of the 

 original drawings, by famous European painters, for a new Illustrated 

 Bible by the proprietors of the " Illustrated London News " ; 

 exhibition of Designs, &c, in connection with the proposed Cathedral 

 for Liverpool ; and Mr. Thomas Pegram's loan collection of Oil 

 Pointings and Water Colours. This collection, containing very 

 beautiful examples of Modern Art, has been accepted on temporary 

 loan by the Committee, and the opinion has been expressed that other 

 private owners of valuable pictures would add to the attractions of 

 the Gallery and the furtherance of Art knowledge, if, when 

 opportunity served, they would allow their Art treasures to be 

 displayed in the Gallery in any vacant rooms that may be available. 



In the List of Donations will be found a further contribution of 

 Water-Colour Drawings by John Varley and George Barret, 

 presented by James Smith, Esq., of lihuulellsands, as the nucleus of 

 a collection of Water Colours from the time of the earliest examples. 

 The Water-Colour Section of the City Collection is very meagre in 



