54 . REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 
ber of paintings exhibited was 159, of which 131 were the property 
of the Gallery, the remainder being loans. ‘There were also a few 
pieces of sculpture belonging to the Harriet Lane Johnston collection. 
The Evans collection occupied four rooms and a large amount of 
corridor space; the Harriet Lane Johnston collection, one room; a 
loan by Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson, one room; and the other Gallery 
possessions and loans, the remaining room and corridor walls and also 
the northern outer surface of the general inclosure. The large deco- 
rative painting by Mr. John Elhott, entitled ‘‘Diana of the Tides,” 
elsewhere described, was likewise included in the exhibition. <A cata- 
logue of the collection was printed for gratuitous distribution. 
Again, on the afternoon of May 17, 1910, the Gallery was specially 
opened from 4.30 to 6 o’clock for the benefit of the members of the 
American Federation of Arts, which was then holding its first annual 
convention in Washington, and on the same day the Secretary of 
the Institution addressed the Federation on the subject of the 
National Gallery. 
A Museum bulletin of 140 pages issued during the year treats in a 
historical way of the collections of art of all kinds acquired by the 
museums under Government control from the founding of the Na- 
tional Institute in 1840, and concludes with an illustrated catalogue of 
the paintings in the National Gallery on July 1, 1909. According to 
this publication, the National Gallery had, during the preceding three 
years, been the recipient of three important collections of paintings, 
one bequeathed by Harriet Lane Johnston, the others presented by 
Mr. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, and Mr. William T. Evans, of New 
York. It was also in possession of a number of paintings derived 
from other sources, and had been fortunate in securing several inter- 
esting loans. The bulletin likewise records many additional paintings, 
mainly portraits, and other objects of art, associated with the his- 
torical collections of the Museum or belonging to the Smithsonian 
Institution. 
The collection of Harriet Lane Johnston, who died on July 3, 1903, 
came into the possession of the Gallery under a decree of the Supreme 
Court of the District of Columbia, dated July 11, 1906, which inter- 
preted that part of Mrs. Johnston’s will relating to the collection 
favorably to the contention of the Government, based upon the act 
of Congress of 1846 founding the Smithsonian Institution. Received 
and placed on exhibition in August, it contains the following paint- 
ings: ‘Madonna and Child,” by Bernardino Luini; “ Portrait of Mrs. 
Hammond,” by Sir Joshua Reynolds; ‘Portrait of Miss Kirkpat- 
rick,” by George Romney; “ Portrait of Lady Essex as Juliet,” by Sir 
Thomas Lawrence; ‘Portrait of Mrs. Abington,” by John Hoppner; 
“Portrait of Miss Murray,” by Sir William Beechey; ‘Portrait of 
the Prince of Wales (King Edward VIT),” by Sir John Watson Gor- 
