ABSTRACT
The thirty paintings now assembled in a temporary Salle Lane at the National Gallery are in danger of being regarded less as works of art than as yet another grievance of a distressful country. Two facts may be states without controversy—first, that Sir Hugh Lane deposited twenty–three of the paintings at the Dublin Municipal Gallery of Fine Art in 1907 in order to make it “widely representative of the greatest painters of the nineteenth century” secondly, that in view of Dublin’s failure to provide a site for a permanent gallery he bequeathed the whole of this particular collection to the National Gallery of London. In the Report of the National Gallery Committee, issued, a list is given, first, of artists unrepresented in the National Gallery; and, secondly, of artists inadequately represented. The unrepresented painters are classifies under two headings according as they were considers to be of greater or minor importance.
