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the smaller rooms, and comprises the following 9 paintings of excep- 
tional merit: ‘Italian Landscape,’ by Richard Wilson; ‘Portrait 
of Archibald Skirving,” by Sir Henry Raeburn; “Portrait of Sir 
Sampson Wright,’ by George Romney; ‘Marine,’ by William 
Clarkson Stanfield; ‘‘Madonna and Child,’ by Govaert Flinck; 
‘‘A Man’s Portrait,” by N. Maes; ‘‘A View in Rome,” by Francesco 
Guardi; ‘‘Portrait of Mrs. Price,” by William Hogarth; and ‘“ Out- 
skirts of a Wood,” by David Cox. 
Especially interesting is a series of 15 paintings by early American 
artists, deposited in the spring of 1910, by Dr. George Reuling, of 
Baltimore. The pieces are as follows: ‘‘Launching of the Brigan- 
tine,’ by P. F. Rothermel; ‘“‘Battle of Bunker Hill,’ ‘General 
Washington at Trenton,” and ‘‘Portrait of General Washington,” 
by John Trumbull; ‘‘General Washington at Princeton,” and 
“Portrait of General Andrew Jackson,” by Charles Willson Peale; 
“Portrait of Mrs. Lloyd,” by Gilbert Stuart; ‘‘Henry Clay on his 
estate, Ashland,” by G. P. A. Healy; ‘‘ Portrait of Miss Rieman,”’ 
by Gilbert Stuart Newton; ‘Henry Clay making his Great Speech,” 
and ‘Portrait of Sergeant Wallace,” by John Neagle; ‘Portrait of 
William Clark, the Explorer,” by Jarvis; ‘‘ Portrait of Henry Clay,”’ 
‘Portrait of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike,’’ and ‘‘ Portrait of a: 
Lady,” by Rembrandt Peale. The loan also includes a painting by 
Sir Henry Raeburn, entitled ‘“‘ English Country Squire.” 
A valuable collection lent by the Duchess de Arcos and turned 
over to the Gallery in June, 1910, comprises 18 paintings, and a 
marble Bacchante by Bien Aimé. Among the painters represented 
are Van Dyck, John Opie, Albano, Zuccarelli, Pietro de Cortona, 
Perino del Vaga, Baroccio, and Berchem. As the paintings have 
been in storage for some years, they will require cleaning and some 
repair before they can be installed. 
A portrait of the late Prof. Simon Newcomb, by C. H. L. Mac- 
donald, was deposited by Mrs. Newcomb, and one of Miss Viola W. 
Myer, by Carle J. Blenner, was lent by Miss Myer. 
Reference has been made in a previous report to a large painting 
designed as a mural decoration for the great east hall of the new 
building, executed by Mr. John Elliott, as a gift to the Museum from 
Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson, of Boston and Washington. It is enti- 
tled ‘‘Diana of the Tides,” and was painted in the studio of the artist 
in Rome, Italy, during the years 1906-1908. This canvas, which 
measures 25 by 11 feet, was first unpacked, framed, and installed for 
exhibition at the opening of the Gallery on March 17, 1910, being 
given a position on the southern wall of the middle hall, outside of 
the Gallery inclosure, where it attracted much attention and was the 
subject of much praise. Before the close of the year, however, it 
was removed to its place in the east hall, where it occupies a high 
