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THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SOME OF THE ACQUISITIONS SINCE 1 865 
Benefactors of the Institution 
JAMES SMITHSON: 
In academic cap and gown, at the age of probably 25 years; water 
color on board, 7 by 6 inches; signed “Bone.” Purchased by the 
Institution in 1887 of James Gunn, London. 
Portrait. By L. Moeller. Crayon bust. 30 by 25 inches. Appar- 
ently copied from the miniature by Johns. 
Memorial tablet. By William Ordway Partridge , 1896. A bronze 
copy is in the English church at Genoa, Italy, where Smithson was 
buried and where his body remained until brought to Washington 
in 1904. A plaster and a marble copy are at the Smithsonian In- 
stitution. 39 by 2 inches. 
THOMAS GEORGE HODGKINS. By Robert Gordon Hardie. Portrait. 
Oil on canvas. 36 by 26 inches. Signed. 
ROBERT STANTON AVERY. Crayon bust. 
Regents of the Institution 
Besides many photographs of Regents, the Institution pos- 
sesses a few oil paintings and crayon portraits of deceased 
members of the Board. The paintings are as follows : 
RICHARD RUSH. By T. W. Wood, January, 1856. Three-quarters 
length. Oil on canvas. 40^ by 3 oJ£ inches. 
CORNELIUS CONWAY FELTON. Bust. Oil on canvas. 34 by 27 
inches. 
LOUIS AGASSIZ. By W. Ingalls. Bust. Oil on canvas. 36 by 30 
inches. Signed. 
The crayon portraits, mostly on a photographic base, are of 
Alexander Dallas Bache, Salmon Portland Chase, Henry Coppde, 
George Mifflin Dallas, Nathaniel Cobb Deering, Millard Fill- 
more, Asa Gray, John Maclean, Justin Smith Morrill, Peter 
Parker, William Tecumseh Sherman, Roger Brooke Taney, 
Morrison Remick Waite. Of W. W. Seaton there are a wash 
drawing, and a medallion head, bas-relief, in plaster, by Henry 
D. Saunders. 
