Autograph manuscript lecture about the exhibition of contemporary British art in Leeds, sponsored by Sir Joseph Duveen. The lecture surveys developments in art in the last hundred years and refers to the art of Constable, Claude, Landseer, Frith, the Pre-Raphaelites, Rossetti, Millais, Corot, Manet, Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Degas, Wilson Steer, Sickert, Cezanne, Grant, Bell, Gertler, Spencer. Contains references to slide illustrations.