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Portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 

 P. R. A. (1723-1792) ; lent by Ralph Cross Johnson. Esq. 



Five paintings: Portrait of Admiral Holding Stevens, 2d, by 

 Robert Hinckley; portrait of Mrs. Thomas Holding Stevens, his 

 wife, artist unknown; portrait of Hon. Eben Sage, of Middletown, 

 Conn., by Chester Harding ; " Madonna," by Honario Mariari, 

 favorite pupil of Carlo Dulci ; " Madonna," by Carlo Mahratta. 

 Lent by Mrs. Pierre C. Stevens, through Mrs. Frederick C. Hicks, 

 Port Washington, Long Island, N. Y. 



Portrait of Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, 

 1921-1923; by E. Hodgson Smart (1873- ). Lent by the artist. 



DISTRIBUTIONS 



Loans have been withdrawn by their owners, as follows : " Christ 

 in the Temple," by J. B. Tiepolo ; " The Doctor's Visit," by Jan 

 Steen; and "A Young Dutch Girl," by N. Drost; withdrawn by 

 Ralph Johnson, Esq. 



Portrait of George Washington, by Rembrandt Peale, and por- 

 trait of John V. L. Pruyn, by Charles L. Elliott; withdrawn by 

 Hon. Charles S. Hamlin. (The Washington was returned before 

 close of the year.) 



Portrait of Henry Clay Ide, by Ossip Perelma; turned over to 

 Mrs. W. Bourke Cockran by direction of Mr. Perelma. 



Portrait of Dr. George F. Becker and of Mrs. Florence Becker, by 

 Fedor Encke; portrait of Mrs. Sarah Carey Becker, by Waring; 

 painting by a Japanese artist; "A Woodland Study " and "The 

 Placid Potomac," by W. H. Holmes; "The Deer Pass" (steel en- 

 graving), by Landseer, and a bas-relief; withdrawn by Mrs. Flor- 

 ence Becker Forrester. 



" Landscape," by N. Diaz ; withdrawn by Dr. C. C. Galloway. 



" The Madonna of the Blue Veil," " Portrait of My Mother," and 

 portrait of James A. Stearman, by E. Hodgson Smart; withdrawn 

 by Mr. Smart. 



Don Giovanni Rilgas, attributed to Cimabue ; withdrawn by Capt. 

 Edgar Thompson, United States Navy. 



LOANS BY THE GALLERY 



The painting recently received through the Ranger fund, entitled 

 " Tohickon," by Daniel Garber, N. A., was lent to the Art Institute 

 of Chicago, to be shown at their annual exhibition, November 2 to 

 December 1, 1922. It has been returned to the gallery. 



The portrait of Miss Ellen Day Hale, by Mrs. Margaret Lesley 

 Bush-Brown, presented to the gallery by Mr. Arthur Hale, was lent 

 to Mrs. Bush-Brown to be exhibited at the Art Alliance of Phila- 



