We understand that the Prize Drawings of the Metropolitan District
Schools of Art will be exhibited during the Easter Holidays, at the South Kensington Museum, in the rooms provisionally prepared for the recep- tion of the Vernon and Turner Pictures. The Class Rooms of the Training School, will also be open during the holidays for the inspection of the public.
The Council of the Society of Arts have appealed to the Trustees of the National Gallery " to consider whether they cannot take advantage of the temporary exhibition of the Turner and Vernon Collections at South Kensington, to allow them to be open to the public of an evening as well as by day. The irreproachable behaviour of the evening visitors at the South Kensington Museum is adduced in support of this appeal, and the resolution by the representatives of the three hundred institu- tions united to the Society, enforcing upon the Council the suggestion of bringing before the Government the question of the propriety of opening the National Museums and Galleries generally in the evening is very fitly appended.
From the Architectural Museum, South Kensington, again, there are two prizes of Si. Ss. and 31. 38. for the moat meritorious specimens of carving in wood : and one of Sl. Ss. for the most successful colouring a cast from a pannel ; one of eight, from the side of a tomb in the Church of San Giovanni-Verona, which contains a draped figure, surrounded with foliage on a flat ground in low relief, and inclosed in a narrow border. Certificates of merit will be awarded where the works have not sufficient merit to win the prize.
We have been requested to state that the National Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George Street, Westminster, will be open to the public by tickets on Easter Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, from ten to five o'clock.
Tickets, procurable as usual from Messrs. Colnaghi ' - Messrs. Graves and Mr. J. Smith (of New Bond Street), may be had alto, on application, of W. Metebim, Stationer, 20, Parliament Street, and of W. Dufour, Stationer, 17, Great George Street, Westminster.
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