Excerpt from Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Paintings From the National Gallery of Canada: On Exhibition From January 8th Till February 23rd, 1919 A large number of the purchases made by the Trustees during the years l909 to l9 3. In the latter year Government grants were drastically reduced on account of the war, and the purchases of the Trustees have since been entirely confined to Canadian works of art. The exhibition is purposely of a very varied nature and includes the art of many ages, and of widely differing schools and. 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.