HC Deb 24 July 1956 vol 557 cc15-6W
59. Mr. Teeling

asked the Secretary to the Treasury how many of the Lane Bequest pictures are now hanging in the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery: how many are in storage and how long they have been in storage; and how many other works of the painters included in the Lane Bequest are to be found now in the National Gallery and Tate Gallery.

Mr. H. Brooke

I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to the hon. and learned Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hector Hughes) yesterday.

Most of the 15 paintings at present in storage at the National Gallery were transferred there some six months ago from the Tate Gallery. They had been exhibited at the Tate from time to time since the war, and on at least one occasion were shown as a complete group. The 8 pictures not at present on exhibition at the Tate have been in store there for about a year.

Other works by painters represented in the Lane Bequest are as follows:

I. At the National Gallery
Bonvin 1
Boudin 3
Corot 12
Courbet 3
Daubigny 4
Daumier Nil
Degas 4
Diaz 4
Fromentin 1
Gerome Nil
Ingres 5
Jongkind 1
Manet 4
Maris 4
Monet Nil
Monticelli 12
Pissarro 2
Puvis de Chavannes 1
Renoir 1
Rousseau 5
Stevens 1
II. At the Tate Gallery
J. L. Brown Nil
Fantin-Latour 6
Forain 3
Madrazo 1
Mancini 1
Morisot Nil
Vuillard 3