It will be seen from this table that 536 pictures in all have been purchased 2: total cost of £523,337:13:6, showing an average cost for each picture of abe £975. Pictures purchased out of private bequests are distinguished in the following Index, from the others, by their prices being printed in italics. A. Mr. Angerstein's Collection (38 pictures) was purchased in one lot for £57,000. (1) Nos. 9, 35, and 62 were purchased together for £9000. (2) Nos. 10 and 15 were purchased together for £11,500. (3) Nos. 13 and 59 were purchased together for £7350. (4) The Krüger Collection (64 pictures) was purchased in 1854 by, and on the responsibility the then Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gladstone), for £2800. Seventeen of them wit originally hung in the Gallery; 10 were sent to Dublin; and the remaining 37 were sold a Christie's in 1857, and realised £249: 8s., or £6:14s. each. Of the 17 originally hung in th gallery, all but 4 were weeded out in 1862, the rejected pictures being divided between Du and the Science and Art Department. (5) Nos. 280, 285, and 286, together with five others deposited in the National Gallery of Ireland and two which were sold at Christie's for £130: 9s., were purchased from the Baron Galvag Venice, for £2189:16: 10. (6) The Lombardi-Baldi Collection (Florence), 31 pictures, was purchased in one lot for £oss (7) The Beaucousin Collection of 46 pictures (13 of which were not kept for the Gallery), was pur chased at Paris in one lot for £9205:3: 1. (8) The Peel Collection of 77 pictures and 18 drawings was purchased in one lot for £75,000, Sir C. L. (then Mr.) Eastlake was appointed Keeper in 1843. 185 | Sir W. Hamilton. Sir J. Reynolds | Portraits of Jan Jan van Eyck 275 166 Arnolfini & Wife 33980 N. P. Gal. Lent Brit. Mus. 1843 XI. P. General Hay 1842 200 Sir T. Lawrence Gio. Bellini Rembrandt N. P. Gal. G. Mrs. Fitz Hugh Guido 473 11 409 10 Gerard Dou 1 This picture does not appear in the Official Catalogue; nor can I find any trace, in the Directors' Annual Reports, of what was done with it. View in Venice burg Guardi 212 S. Kens. B. X. B. 320 XIII. B. XII. B. X. B. Conventual Charity Dutch Shipping 201 202 Domestic Poultry 203 204 205 206 Head of a Girl Itinerant Musicians The Idle Servant 209 Judgment of Paris. 213 Van Harp Both & Poelen- 237 Huchtenburgh 301 Merchant and Clerk De Keyser 246 Mr. Thomas Uwins, R.A., was appointed Keeper in 1847. Vision of a Knight. 214 Coronation of Virgin Saints 215 Sch. of Taddeo Gaddi G. E. Higginson S. Kens. 2 N. Vest. G. G. P. Pusey G. 2 Gilbert Stuart N. P. Gal. G. H. Farrer G. Sir W. C. Trevelyan N. P. Gal. G. H. Graves and Co. | 1850 249 274 214 X. B. C. L. Bredel 140 1 The donor was informed when he offered these two pictures that they were too large, in view the limited wall-space then at the disposal of the Gallery, to be placed in the rooms to which the p were admitted. The pictures were presented on those terms, and appear to have never been numbered or incorporated in the Official Catalogue. |