82 AKX GALLERY. 



Twelve Engravings, after Pictures by George Stubbs, lt.A., 



viz. : — 



" The frightened Horse," 



" Phaeton." 



" Labourers." 



" Lioness and Lion." 



" Jupiter and Mare." 



" Horses lighting." 



" The Spanish Pointer."' 



" Bulls fighting." 



" Horse and Lioness." 



" A Lion." 



" A Tigress." 



" Phillis— a Pointer." 



All bequeathed by the late Itev. S. A. Thompson- Yates. 



Six Water colour Drawings, by Paul Sandby, B.A., bequeathed 

 by the late W. A. Sandby, viz. : 

 '" Italian Composition " 

 " Conway Castle, North Wales." 

 " Carnarvon Castle." 

 " A view on the Paver Dee." 

 " Near Old Windsor." 

 " Old Farm buildings." 



With reference to the painting " The Widower," by Luke Fildes, 

 P. A. (a native of Liverpool) it is of interest to place upon record an 

 extract from a letter written by the artist regarding it : 



" I am indeed pleased to hear my small picture of ' The 

 Widower ' has been acquired by a Public Gallery, and particu- 

 larly so by Liverpool, where my pictures in the past have had 

 much association, and where I have so often exhibited. 



" Perhaps next to ' The Doctor,' ' The Widower ' is the 

 picture I think my best, and though in Sydney it is with friends 

 and admirers. Still I had a feeling that it was in a sense 

 exiled from my artistic surroundings, and I conceived the idea 

 of painting this smaller version, as the probability is the larger 

 picture would never come to England again. 



