11 



FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



Corporation jSrt ©allery Committee. 



JTX H E Art Gallery Committee have pleasure in presenting 

 -*- their Fifteenth Annual Report to the Town Council. 

 According to custom, a comparative table of the number of visitors 

 for the last three years is given below. 



It will be noticed that the number of visitors is below those of 

 previous years, a result which has characterised the returns from many 

 other Art Galleries and Museums during the current year. The propor- 

 tion between the numbers on the free days and paying days remains 

 at about seven to one. The total number of visitors to the Gallery 

 since its opening is now 575,501. 



The deficit to be paid by the Council is £\-j less than that of 

 last year. The catalogue value of the pictures sold at the Exhibitions 

 is ^449 12s. od., which exeeds last year's result by ^76. The Annual 

 Art Union was again a success. 



The usual number of Exhibitions was held during the year, the 

 Autumn and Spring consisting as in former years, of modern pictuies 

 in both oil and water colours. The Committee believe that the 

 standard of the works exhibited steadily improves, and for each 

 Exhibition more pictures were submitted than could po.-sibly be 

 hung. This is a very cheering sign, proving that the Gallery 

 continues to hold its place in the estimation of artists. Mr. 

 Calderon's picture of the "Renunciation of Elizabeth of Hungary" 



