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The Gallery has been put under further obligations to Mr. W. X. 

 Slater for the addition of 10 fine canvases to his original loan of 15 

 paintings recorded in the report for last year. They are A Gray 

 Day, by Corot ; Island of the Cupids, and Group of Dogs, by Diaz ; 

 The Landing, and Three Oaks, by Dupre; Winter Landscape, by 

 Eaffaelli; Female Figure, by Monticelli; The Quartet, by Gaugen- 

 gigl ; At the Barracks, Constantinople, by A. Pasini ; and Madonna 

 and Child, attributed to the Sienna School. The collection of Mr. 

 Slater fills one of the two small rooms adjoining the north entrance 

 to the Gallery, while the other continues to be occupied by the loan 

 from Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson, made in 1010 and 1911, and com- 

 prising 11 paintings, also by distinguished European masters. An- 

 other important loan, received from Mr. H. C. Perkins, consists of 

 the following 10 works by British and Dutch artists, namely. Portrait 

 of the Countess of Clermont, by Sir Joshua Eeynolds; Portrait of 

 the Earl of Mulgrave, by Sir Thomas Lawrence ; Portrait of a Boy, 

 by John Hoppner ; Portrait, by Sir William Beechey ; Girl, by John 

 OiDie; A Cottage Scene, by Ladbrooke; Landscape, by Meindert 

 Hobbema; Portrait of a Dutch Lady, by Michael Jansz Mierevelt; 

 Portrait of a Dutch Lady, by Jan Victoors ; and Madonna and Child, 

 attributed to Van Dyck. 



An interesting series of paintings depositedby Mrs. James Lowndes 

 comprises: Portrait of Mr. James Lowndes, by George B. Butler; 

 Portrait of Mr. Charles Lowndes; Portrait of Mrs. Charles Lowndes; 

 Child, by Copley; Portrait of Mrs. Oliver Wolcott, wife of the Sec- 

 retary of the Treasury under Washington; Portrait of Mrs. George 

 Gibbs, by Lazarus; Portrait of Mrs. Gracie; Portrait of Cardinal 

 Ventivoglio, attributed to Van Dyck; Portrait of a Young Abbot, 

 said to be by Mignard ; Portrait of N. Menager, Minister to the Con- 

 gress of Utrecht, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1714; Portrait of a Youth 

 in Costume, attributed to Gainsborough; Portrait of George Wash- 

 ington, copy by Jane Stuart of the original in the Athenaeum, Bos- 

 ton, painted by her father, Gilbert Stuart; The Good Sister, by 

 Hugues Merle; Battle Scene, by Eugene Fromentin; Landscape, by 

 W. T. Richards; Girl Tying up a Vine, by J. L. Hamon; and two 

 paintings on glass by Anna Barbara al Esch, 1731. 



Other loans of paintings were as follows: From Mrs. W. Murray 

 Crane : Portrait of Philip IV of Spain, School of Velasquez ; Venice, 

 by Canaletto; Canal Scene, by Guardi; and two landscapes by Rich- 

 ard Wilson. From Miss Silvie de Grasse Fowler : Portrait of Fran- 

 cois Paul de Grasse de Rouville, Admiral Comte de Grasse, by Lar- 

 gilliere ; Portrait of Theodosius O. Fowler, by G. P. A. Healy ; and 

 Portrait of St. Bernard Dog, Hero, by Benjamin West. From Mrs. 

 Steven B. Ayres: One water color, by Addison T. Millar, entitled 

 Autumn on Long Island, and three oil paintings, by George Traver, 



