56 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
LOANS TO OTHER MUSEUMS AND ORGANIZATIONS 
Two oil paintings, Portrait of Commodore Stephen Decatur, by 
Gilbert Stuart, and Portrait of Admiral William S. Sims, by Irving 
R. Wiles, were lent to the United States Naval Academy for an exhi- 
bition of naval personages and traditions, in connection with the 
ceremonies held in observing the centennial anniversary of the found- 
ing of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, on October 10, 
1945, held at M. Knoedler & Co., New York City, September 24 through 
October 13, 1945. (Returned November 6, 1945.) 
Two miniatures, Mrs. Bertha E. Jaques, by Nelly McKenzie Tol- 
man, and Woman Knitting, by Mary Ursula Whitlock, were lent to 
the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters to be included in 
their annual exhibition in Philadelphia and Washington. (Returned 
December 3, 1945.) 
An oil painting, The Visit of the Mistress, by Winslow Homer, was 
lent to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va., to be in- 
cluded in their exhibition of Nineteenth Century Virginia Genre 
Painting, January 17 through February 18, 1946. (Returned Febru- 
ary 25, 1946.) 
The original design for the painting in the Capitol, Westward the 
Course of Empire Takes Its Way, by Emanuel Leutze, was lent to The 
Century Association for an exhibition held at their club, New York 
City, February 7 through March 3, 1946. (Returned March 7, 1946.) 
Four water colors by William H. Holmes, A Maryland Meadow, 
Watt’s Branch, Near Rockville, A Storm-Beaten Coast, The Unmodi- 
fied Rock Creek About 1910, and Coal Barge, Capri, 1880, were lent 
to The White House, January 25, 1946. 
Three oil paintings, Conway Hills, by Frederick Ballard Williams, 
The Meadow Brook, by Charles P. Gruppe, and Sea and Rain, by 
George H. Bogert, were lent to the Treasury Department, March 14, 
1946, to be hung in the large conference room in the Treasury Building. 
Two pastel portraits of Gen. George Washington and Mrs. Martha 
Washington, by James Sharples, were lent, with the consent of the 
owners, Mrs. Robert E. Lee, Dr. George Bolling Lee, Mrs. Hanson E. 
Ely, Jr., and Mrs. William Hunter de Butts, to Knoedler Galleries, 
New York City, to be included in an exhibition sponsored by the 
Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation called “Stratford Hall, the Lees 
of Virginia, and Their Contemporaries,” from April 30 to May 18, 
1946. (Returned May 27, 1946.) 
LOANS RETURNED 
One oil painting, Portrait of Andrew Jackson, by R. E. W. Earle, 
lent to the Baltimore Museum of Art, was returned July 21, 1945. 
