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Excerpt from The National Gallery British Art Catalogue: With Descriptions, Historical Notes and Lives of Deceased Artists Marlborough House, and afterwards at the South Kensington Museum, till the new wing of the National Gallery was Opened in 1876, when they were transferred to Trafalgar Square. In 1857, ten years after the Vernon gift, Mr. John Sheepshanks presented a similar collection to the nation, under condition that it should be exhibited at South Kensington, with reversion to the Fitz William Museum at Cambridge. At South Kensington there has also grown up, by gift and purchase, a large historical collection of British water-colours. To this and to the Sheepshanks Collection the name National Gallery of British Art was attached and is still employed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

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