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THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
Fellow, Pa. Acad. Fine Arts; member, Nat. Arts Club, N. Y.; Union Inter- 
nationale des Beaux- Arts et des Lettres; Royal Soc. Arts, London. Studio, 
New York. 
ADAGIO. 
Signed. On canvas, 35 H., 29 W. 
DEPTHS OF THE WOODS. 
Signed. On canvas, 35 H., 29 W. 
Gifford, R. Swain. 
Bom, Island of Naushon, Mass., Dec. 23, 1840; died, New York, Jan. 15, 
1905. Landscape painter and etcher. Learned the rudiments of his art 
from Albert Van Beest, a Dutch marine painter, at New Bedford, Mass. 
Moved to Boston in 1864 and two years later settled in New York. First 
exhibited in 1864 at the National Academy of Design, of which he was 
elected an Associate in 1867 and an Academician in 1878. Traveled exten- 
sively, painting in Oregon and California in 1869 , and later in Europe , Algiers, 
and Egypt. Gold medal, Centennial Exh., Philadelphia, 1876; prize of 
$2,500 in New York in 1885; bronze medal, Paris Exp., 1889; silver medal, 
Pan-Amer. Exp., Buffalo, 1901; gold medal, Charleston Exp., 1902. Mr. 
Gifford was a member of the Soc. Amer. Artists, Amer. Water Color Soc., 
Nat. Arts Club, Soc. of London Painters, and Royal Society of Painters- 
Etchers, London. 
NEAR THE OCEAN. 
Signed and dated, 1879. On canvas, 22 % H., 40 W. 
Gifford, Sanford Robinson. 
Bom, Greenfield, N. Y., July 10, 1823; died, New York, Aug. 29, 1880. 
Landscape painter. Pupil of John R. Smith and the National Academy of 
Design in New York, in which city he made his home subsequent to 1844. 
Also studied in Paris and Rome, and traveled in Italy, Greece, Egypt, and 
the Rocky Mountains. Became an Associate in 1851, and an Academician 
in 1854, of the National Academy of Design. 
THE VILLA MALTA. 
Signed and dated, 1879. On canvas, 1 3 % H., 27^ W. 
Groll, Albert Lorey. 
Bom, New York, Dec. 8, 1866. Pupil of Gysis and Loefftz in Munich. 
Morgan prize, Salma. Club, 1903 ; hon. mention, Munich; Shaw prize, Salma. 
Club, 1904; silver medal, St. Louis Exp., 1904; Sesnan medal, Phila. Acad. 
Fine Arts, 1906; medals, Buenos Aires and Santiago Exp’s., 1910; Inness 
gold medal, Nat. Acad. Design, 1912 ; silver medal, Panama- Pacific Intemat. 
