Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the National Loan Exhibition, in Aid of National Gallery Funds: Held in the Grafton Galleries, London, 1909 1910<br><br>I mention these problems in this preface, because an illustrated catalogue will be a great help to us in working them out when these pictures are dispersed and have returned to their Old homes.<br><br>As we turn over these pages, we shall easily see many other points for which the Exhibition is remarkable. The Duke of West minster's Rembrandt, Mrs. Joseph's Vermeer, Sir Julius Wernher's Titian, Sir Frederick Cook's Velazquez, and the portrait of the old Duke of Wellington, by Goya, lent by the Duke of Leeds, a work of extraordinary interest for us.<br><br>Again, the French School is surprisingly well represented, from the Watteau lent by Mr. Alfred de Rothschild, anil the lovely little Boucher lent by Mr. Heseltine, to the Chardin lent by Sir Hugh Lane.<br><br>A special feature is the collection of French drawings from Fouquet to Ingres, which fascinate us the more we study them by their variety and accomplishment. These masterpieces alone would make it well worth while visiting the Exhibition a hundred times and how refreshing it is to look at them with the pictures.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.