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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

Accessions, 1917-1918.

Harriet Hosmer, executed in 1856 ('with dark marble pedestal) presented by Mrs. George Merrill, of Washington; two miniatures, one of Napoleon I and one of Marie Louise, by Isabey, 1811, and two old English silver snuff boxes, received through Mrs. E. Cuyler Wright, Lander, Maryland, as a gift from the heirs of William Cost Johnson; from the Commission of Fine Arts by transfer, two large models (by G. C. Curtis, sculptor, Boston, 1902) of the parking scheme for the city of Washington proposed by a Commission appointed by the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia.

The loans are as follows: From Mrs. George G. Parke, Norfolk, Virginia, four portraits, --one of Mrs. Elliott, one of Mrs. John O'Donnell, her daughter, and one of Mary O'Donnell, granddaughter, painted by Charles W. Peale about 1800, and the fourth a portrait of George Washington by C. Polk, 1792; from Mrs. Lela M. Chapman, Washington, D. C., an oil portrait by Gilbert Stuart, of Mrs. Henrietta Auchmuty, wife of Robert Nichols Auchmuty; from Miss Lucy Stuart Fitzhugh, Washington, D. C., portraits by Sir Peter Lely, of Arthur Spicer and of his wife, Mary Brockenbrough Spicer; from Dr. Edgar Thompson, Medical Inspector, U. S. Navy, an oil painting attributed to Cimabue, entitled "Don Giovanno Rilgar;" from Charles L. Glover, Washington, D. C., a panel, "The Annunciation," attributed to Fra Angelico; from Mr. Hobart Berrian (with