Report of the Committee of Fine Arts. 102. 



The Public were admitted on the payment of one shilling 

 each for adults, and six pence for young persons. The 

 members of the Society were admitted free after the first 

 week. All artists and students were invited to visit the Ex- 

 hibition as often as they pleased without charge, and the 

 Committee are glad to perceive that several availed them- 

 selves frequently of this privilege. The amount collected 

 at the door was £ 6i 8 6, including £7 11 for catalogues. 

 The total expense was £ 87 17 7, including £ 15 for the 

 printing of the Catalogue. 



The number of contributors to the Exhibition was 85, of 

 whom 37 sent works of their own, often accompanied with 

 those of others. 48 proprietors of works of Art sent them 

 to the Exhibition, amongst whom His Excellency the Go- 

 vernor, and Lady Gomm took the lead, having placed at 

 the disposal of the Committee all the pictures which adorn 

 their apartments. Mr. Lidnard, our Vice President, and 

 his son, Mr. Jules Li^nard, sent a large number of valuable 

 paintings, and the former was amply rewarded for the 

 trouble which he took to forward the object of the Commit 

 tee. On exposing to the light a fine picture of Susannah 

 and the Elders, which has hitherto been hung in a dark 

 corner in his house, and had been attributed to an unknown 

 artist, there was found upon it the name of the highly es- 

 teemed painter, Jordaens. Other gentlemen contributed 

 largely, among whom may he named the Honorable Mess" 

 Cuninghame, Koenig and Rawson, and Mess" Bury, Duvi- 

 vier, Rustichelli and Levieux, M me » Moon and Sallard also 

 sent several works, the former chiefly of her own produc- 

 tion. Several others, the Committee have reason to believe, 

 have reserved those in their profession for a future Ex- 

 hibition. 



