Excerpt from The Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: With Short Biographical Notices of the Painters; Foreign Schools Tm; British National Gallery of Pictures was founded in 1824, during the administration of the Earl of Liverpool, by the purchase of the collection of the late John Julius An gerstein (consisting of thirty-eight pictures), which was accordingly secured to the nation; and a grant of Parliament of 60,000l. Preposed by Government, was voted April 2 1824, to defray the charge of purchase and the expense incidental to the preservation and public exhibition of the collection for that year - 57 0001. For the pictures, and for the incidental expenses. 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.