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THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART.

Care of the Collections.

of weeks and attracted much attention.

On urgent request of the President of the Consumers' League of the District of Columbia, Mrs. H. W. Wiley, a portrait of Mrs. Belva Lockwood, painted by Miss Nellie M. Horne, of Boston, was exhibited in the National Museum during inaugural week. It remained on view in the foyer of the new museum building during the month of March. In accepting the picture the stipulation was made that it should be removed from the building early in April; the Committee of the League, however failed to carry out this stipulation and at the end of the year the painting is in storage in the Museum.

During the year the marble allegorical statue, entitled, "Il Penseroso" (Acc. 21433), the work of Joseph Mozier (1813-1870), was removed from the division of