142 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 
There were also 2 other donations aggregating 6 paintings, 5 in 
oil and 1 in pastel. One of these, by Du Bois Fenelon Hasbrouck, en- 
titled “Autumn Landscape,” was received as a gift from Mr. Frederic 
Fairchild Sherman, of New York, in memory of his wife, Eloise Lee 
Sherman. The remainder were presented by Mrs. Walter Shirlaw, 
and are as follows: “ Portrait sketch of Walter Shirlaw at the age of 
35,” by Frank Duveneck, and 4 paintings by Walter Shirlaw, namely, 
“Bell Foundry, Germany” (study for “Toning of the Bell”); 
“ Study Head—Madam Capri” (sketch made at one sitting) ; “ The 
Inn, Germany ” ; and “ Easter Morning,” a decorative panel in pastel. 
The loans to the Gallery were comprised in 12 accessions and con- 
sisted of 109 paintings and 3 pieces of sculpture. Of the paintings 81 
were received for 2 special exhibitions, the others being regularly in- 
stalled with the general collection. Mr. William L. Slater, to whom 
were returned in the autumn of 1913 the 25 paintings enumerated in 
the last report, at the beginning of June, 1914, again lent the follow- | 
ing 19 examples, namely : Rembrandt, “ The Rabbi” ; Ruysdael, “ The 
Dunes near Haarlem”; Corot, “ Nymphs and Fauns” ; Troyon, 
“Horses at Watering Trough”; Millet, “Seamstresses sewing on 
Shroud” and “The Drinking Place” ; Diaz, “ Forest of Fontaine- 
bleau” and “The Island of Cupids”; Rousseau, “Sunset in a 
Wood” ; Daubigny, “ Springtime” ; Mettling, “ Portrait of a Boy” ; 
Raffaelli, “ Winter Landscape” ; Dupré, “Three Oaks” and “The 
Landing” ; Madame Lebrun, “ Portrait of a Lady” ; Gaugengigl, 
“The Quartet” ; Delacroix, “ Return of Columbus to Court of Ferdi- 
nand”; Hobbema, “The Mill”; and Wyant, “ Landscape.” This 
most important series was installed in the same inclosure it had pre- 
viously occupied, the northwest room of the Gallery, opposite that 
containing the valuable collection of Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson. 
The other loans were as follows: From Mrs. Dora B. Amateis, of 
Falls Church, Va., portrait bust of the artist’s son, in marble, by 
Louis Amateis. From Col. John Biddle, United States Army, por- 
trait in oil of Maj. John Biddle, United States Army, by Thomas 
Sully. From Miss Susan D. Biddle, of Detroit, Mich., portrait of 
Eliza Bradish Biddle, wife of Maj. Biddle, by Thomas Sully. From 
Dr. Nathan Boyd, of Washington, copy of Titian’s portrait of his 
daughter, and portrait of Beatrice Cenci, by G. Mazzolini. From 
Mr. H. K. Bush-Brown, of Washington, plaster cast of the bronze 
bust of Lincoln, by Mr. Bush-Brown, at the National Cemetery, 
Gettysburg. From the United States Capitol, Washington, through 
’ Mr. Elliott Woods, superintendent, the bronze doors for the west en- 
trance to the Capitol, designed and sculptured by Louis Amateis. 
From Mr. Benson B. Moore, of Washington, three oil paintings: 
“Might is Right,” by Z. Noterman; an interior, by L. Fissette, and 
another interior attributed to Adrian von Ostade. From Mrs. Julian 
