. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. -Chancellor. His ruHng, how-ever, was set aside on appeal to the Lord Chan-cellor, and so the statue was set up. Returning along Pall Mall East we have on ourleft, next to the United University Club House,the building devoted to the uses of the Old Societyof Painters in Water-Colours, of which Sir JohnGilbert, , is president. The exhibition ofthe works of members of this society takes placeannually, during the summer months, and thepublic are admitted on payment of a shilling. the main front is too much cut up
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. -Chancellor. His ruHng, how-ever, was set aside on appeal to the Lord Chan-cellor, and so the statue was set up. Returning along Pall Mall East we have on ourleft, next to the United University Club House,the building devoted to the uses of the Old Societyof Painters in Water-Colours, of which Sir JohnGilbert, , is president. The exhibition ofthe works of members of this society takes placeannually, during the summer months, and thepublic are admitted on payment of a shilling. the main front is too much cut up in petty detail,and some have even humorously nicknamed it The National Cruet-stand —an idea which hasevidently been suggested by the pepperbox-shapedcupolas with which it is crowned. The National Collection of Paintings originatedin the year 1824, in the purchase of the Angersteingallery of thirty-eight pictures, for which a sum of;^57,000 was voted by Government. The ownerof these pictures, Mr. Julius Angerstein, was anopulent banker, and secured his collection SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. We now arrive at the National Gallery, andascend the steps leading to the portico, where wecertainly obtain one of the finest views in across Trafalgar Square, its fountainssparkling (occasionally) in the sunlight, the sceneembraces the open vista of Whitehall and Par-liament Street, which is closed by the towers andpinnacles of the Houses of Parliament and thevenerable walls of the Abbey. From its first conception to the present timeno building, perhaps, has been the subject of morelively criticism than that which now serves as thechief depository of the pictures belonging to thenation. The edifice, though perhaps a fine onein itself, is not considered in any sense adequateto its national object. Must persons agree that1C9—Vol. III. chiefly during the war against the Great nucleus of a National Gallery having beenthus formed, several bequests and presentat
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