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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION  1398

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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION

The thirty-first annual meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commission was held on December 1, 1953. Ten members were present and, acting as the advisory committee on the acceptance of works of art which had been offered to the National Collection of Fine Arts since the last meeting, recommended the following works for acceptance:

Oil painting, Major General George B. McClellan (1826-1885) by Julian Scot, A.N.A. (1846-1901), bequest of Georgiana L. McClellan, accepted for the National Portrait Gallery.

Oil painting, Lago Maggiore, c. 1867, by William Stanley Haseltine, N.A. (1835-1900), gift of Mrs. Roger Plowden, accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

Oil painting, The Dedication of the American Roll of Honor at St. Paul's Cathedral, July 4, 1951, by Frank O. Salisbury (1874-  ), gift of the British Memorial Committee to the American people, accepted for the Smithsonian Institution (with recommendation that it be assigned to the Department of History).

Oil painting, the Necklace, by Richard E. Miller, N.A., (1875-1943), Henry Ward Ranger Bequest, accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

Watercolor, Rev. George Heaton, N.A., by Edward Heaton (1824-  ), gift of Mrs. H.H. Germain, accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

Miniature, watercolor on ivory, Captain Joseph Anthony, by Walter Robertson (17?-1802), gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ruel P. Tolman, accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

Miniature, watercolor on ivory, Josiah Hewes Anthony, by James Peale (1749-1831), gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ruel P. Tolman, accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

Miniature, watercolor on ivory, A Country Fair, by van Blarenberghe, gift of Mrs. Henry DuPrè Bounetheau, accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

Miniature, watercolor on ivory, Mrs. James Madison Bullock, by an undetermined artist, gift of Mrs. George Bullock-Willis, accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

Seven miniatures, watercolor on ivory, were acquired from the fund established through the bequest of the late Catherine Walden Myer, as follows: