the best thanks of the Committee are due to His Worship for the interest 

 he has always shown in the prosperity of the Art Gallery. The number of 

 pictures exhibited is rather less than last year, but there is no falling off in 

 quality or in public interest, 4,668 persons having visited the Gallery 

 during the first five weeks, and eleven pictures of the value of ^151 hav- 

 ing already been sold. 



The fourth series of Popular Concerts took place on the Saturday 

 evenings of last winter. They were attended by 4,084 persons, who paid 

 ^54 2s. for admission. The net cost of the series was ,£23 18s., so that 

 they yielded a profit of ^30 4s. The concerts were not so numerously 

 attended on the whole as in the previous year. Their success has led to 

 the organisation of concerts similar in character in other places on the 

 same evenings. The best thanks of the Committee are due to the Curator 

 for his trouble in organising and arranging these pleasant evenings, and to 

 all those ladies and gentlemen, too numerous to mention, who have given 

 their services. 



The usual change of objects in the South Kensington cases was effected 

 in December last : they are of a highly attractive character, and such as 

 are likely to be a valuable aid to the art and industry of the town. Through 

 the good offices of Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, an additional case has been 

 filled with early Cyprian pottery and glass, and the fine collection of 

 Chinese and Japanese objects belonging to Lady Hart, which was for some 

 time on view at South Kensington Museum, has by her Ladyship's kind- 

 ness been transferred to our Gallery. The thanks of the Committee are 

 also due to Mr. W. Bemrose, J. P., for his loan collection of Indian metal 

 work ; to the Rev. T. R. Stevenson, of Shanghai, for his Indian and Cinga- 

 lese curiosities ; to Canon Olivier and Mr. F. J. Robinson for their Derby- 

 shire vases ; to Mr. and Mrs. Maw, of Tenant Street, for their specimens 

 of Derby China ; and last, but not least, to Mr. Felix Joseph, of Brighton, 

 for the loan of a portion of his matchless collection of Wedgwood ware. 



In conclusion, the Committee think that the town may be congratu- 

 lated on the increasing interest which is being manifested in art, to which 

 the Art Gallery cannot have failed to contribute. They are glad to note 

 its increasing usefulness and popularity, and the small cost to the town 

 at which it is maintained ; and they will rejoice when they feel they are 

 in a financial position largely to extend its educational benefits, by throwing 

 it entirely open. 



On behalf of the Committee, 



WM. BEMROSE, 

 Nov. 4t/i, 1S89. Chairman. 



