THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. RECENT ACQUISITIONS.]
Those in charge of the National Portrait Gallery have arranged to set apart and show as a separate exhibition the mcre recent acquisitions, and I am given to understand that this procedure will continue from time to time. The idea should appeal to all who take an interest in this national collection, as new pictures, once they lave- joined their category in the various galleries, are difficult to trace. This exhibition contains some thirty pictures, ranging from a full length oil of William IV, grandly painted by Sir Martin Shee, to two Vanity Fair cartoons of Swinburne and Thomas Binney. Gainsborough, George Richmond, Sargent, Watts and Walter Sickert are among the artists who have painted portraits, and Peg Woffington, Ellen Terry, Thomas Hardy, and Jenny 'Lind, some few of the personalities painted. George Bradshaw, the inventor of railway guides. Thomas Walker, the creator of the part of MacHeath, and William Booth, who founded the Salvation Ariny, are also there. Sargent is. responsible for portraits of Edmund Gosse, and Ellen Terry in the part of Lady Macbeth, pencil sketches of Charles Bradlaugh and Frederick Harrison are by Walter Sickert, and an oil painting of Ellen Terry, at the age of seventeen, is by Watts. The small portrait of Peg Woffington, by Hayman, is delightful. There are two interesting medallions in wax of the third Viscount Palmerston, by Richard Cockle Lucas. Those who can do so should certainly see this small exhibition.
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