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BERIAH BOTFIELD, ESQ. M.P.

A DIRECTOR OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTION,

AND A PROMOTER OF

LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS:

This Work

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY HIS FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THOMAS SMITH.

First Exhibition of Works of British Artists in 1806,

with brief notices of the Artists Exhibitors

The School of Painting

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Winter Exhibitions, 1807 to 1859 inclusive, with abstract

of Premiums and Donations for meritorious Works,

Pictures purchased, and Charitable Contributions, as

they were granted in each year, with the Artist's

description of the Pictures, Biographical Notices, &c. 47-131

Summary and Statement of the Expenditure in further-

ance of the Objects of the Institution

Dinner Commemorative of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Summer Exhibitions of Works of Ancient Masters, and
Deceased British Artists, 1813 to 1859 inclusive, an
abstract of the most important Works, Biographical
Notices, &c.

Obituaries of Governors and Directors, &c.

133

136

139-213

53-193

Prefaces to Catalogues of Summer Exhibitions, written

by R. P. Knight, Esq. and Sir T. Bernard, Bart. 141-174

Evening Exhibitions

214

Notice of the National Gallery, and important Collections

in this Country

215

Addenda.—List of Illustrious and Noble Personages, and

Gentlemen of England, who have contributed Works

of Art to the Winter Exhibitions

Index -

217

227

BOOKS OF REFERENCE CONSULTED DURING THE COMPILATION OF THIS WORK, AND FROM WHICH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES HAVE

BEEN CONDENSED.

Account of all the Pictures exhibited in the Rooms of the British Institution from 1813 to 1823, belonging to the Nobility and Gentry of England; with Remarks, Critical and Explanatory.-By the Rev. James Dallaway. Priestley and Weale, 1824.

Allan Cunningham's Lives of the Painters.

Allan Cunningham's Life of Sir David Wilkie, R.A.

The Annual Register.

The Art-Journal.

The Athenæum.

Bryan's Dictionary of Painters. Edited and much enlarged by C. Stanley. Catalogues of the British Institution-Modern Exhibitions.

Catalogues of the British Institution-Exhibitions of the Ancient Masters. Cotton's Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.

Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery, 1859. By R. N. Wornum, Esq. revised by Sir Charles Eastlake, P.R.A. Elmes's Art and Artists.

Fulcher's Life of Gainsborough.

The Gentleman's Magazine.

Gilchrist's Life of William Etty, R.A. 1855.

Life of Flaxman, by Sir Richard Westmucott.

The Literary Gazette.

Lives of the Ancient Masters, Manuscript Compilation by Miss Boydell.

Men of the Time, or Biographical Sketches of Eminent Living Characters.—

D. Bogue, 1856.

Mrs. Bray's Life of Stothard.

Our Living Painters, their Lives and Works.-Blackwood, 1859.

Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters, New Edition, 1824.

Recollections of the Life of Sir Francis Chantrey, &c. by G. Jones, R.A.

Waagen's Art Treasures of Great Britain.

Williams's Life of Sir Thomas Lawrence.