28 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1948 
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney’s gift of a Van Dyck portrait of 
Henri II de Lorraine, Duc de Guise, was accepted on the same date. 
Three paintings given by William C. Freeman were accepted by 
the Board of Trustees on October 18, 1947. One was a group portrait, 
“The Coleman Sisters, Isabel, Sarah, and Margaret,” by Thomas Sully. 
The others were portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coleman, by Rem- 
brandt Peale. At the same time a painting given by Stephen C. Clark, 
entitled “Hound and Hunter,” by Winslow Homer, was accepted. 
On December 22, 1947, the Board accepted from Mrs. Gordon Dexter 
an oil sketch entitled “The Death of Lord Chatham,” by John Single- 
ton Copley. A portrait of George Washington, by Charles Peale Polk, 
was accepted from William C. Freeman on the same date, to be held for 
a National Portrait Gallery. On March 1, 1948, the Board of Trustees 
accepted from Mrs. Henry R. Rea a portrait, attributed to the English 
School, of the Ear] of Essex, and from Mrs. Augustus Vincent Tack 
a portrait of her mother, Mrs. George Fuller, by George Fuller. On 
June 16, 1948, the Board accepted from Oscar Doyle Johnson a paint- 
ing entitled “Catherine,” by Robert Henri. 
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS 
A gift from Lessing J. Rosenwald of 199 additional prints and 
drawings was accepted on October 13, 1947, to be added to the Lessing 
J. Rosenwald Collection. At the same time, six prints and drawings 
were accepted from Myron A. Hofer. On May 4, 1948, the Board 
accepted from Mrs. Josephine Bradlee, Mrs. Percy D. Morgan, and 
Caspar C. de Gersdorff a total of 270 prints and drawings by Segonzac, 
and 42 illustrated books, given in memory of the late Frank Crownin- 
shield. 
During the year the Board accepted from Chester Dale a drawing 
and an etching, two prints from David Keppel, and a woodcut from an 
anonymous donor. The offer of Lessing J. Rosenwald to exchange an 
engraving by Aldegrever for a better impression was also accepted. 
SCULPTURE 
On October 18, 1947, the Board accepted from Hames MacVeagh a 
bronze portrait medallion of Wayne MacVeagh, by Augustus Saint- 
Gaudens, to be held for a National Portrait Gallery. 
WORKS OF ART ON LOAN 
During the fiscal year 1948 the following works of art were received 
on loan by the National Gallery of Art: 
From Artist 
Anonymous loan: 
ParadisenV alley 22222 232 sa Baa ae eee John La Farge. 
Mrs. Charles Carstairs, Paris, France: 
Colonel Pocklington and His Sisters______-_----_--- George Stubbs. 
