PINE ART DIVISION.

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the Gallery of Painting;

the Arrangementof the Sculp-ture.

Wall there, the lettering, in all cases, being in gold.

The Sculpture Room contains thirty-five works, viz., thirty statues, two poetic busts, and threerelievi.

The Painting Gallery accommodates twenty-five works of Sculpture, viz., two groups of four statues

each, and five single ones down the centre ; also six statues in the intercolumniations, and six busts close to

the columns.

Arranged on the staircase are ten works, viz., eight busts and two relievi; and in the upper gallery isplaced a case of medals.

The examples of Sculpture from the United Kingdom thus amount to seventy-one.

The arrangement of the Sculpture was completed by the 1st of May, with the exception of the non-arrival of two works, which were delayed at Dunkirk, but for which pedestals were ready and fixed.

I beg to add, that I met with the greatest civility and kindness on the part of the French Authori-ties, and though several of the arrangements we desired differed from their own conceptions, they gaveway on each point.

I have the honour to be,My Lords,

Your Lordships’ obedient Servant,

JOHN BELL.