With the acquisition of a rare portrait of Chief Justice Taney of the United States Supreme Court, the Harvard Law School has added another painting to its already large collection of poraraits of American and British jurists.

The portrait was painted in 1859 by Emmanuel Lentze, who came to America in the early part of the last century to make decorations for the capitol at Washington. Lentze was also commissioned to paint the portrait for Justice Taney's daughter, a Mrs. J. M. Campbell, the wife of a noted lawyer of Baltimore. Lentze is probably best remembered by his painting of "Washington Crossing the Delaware", which now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The painting of Judge Taney, which is three-quarter length and life size, was done when the Judge was in his eighty-third year.

The portrait of Chief Justice Taney will be hung, at least temporarily, in the South Room of Langdell Hall between the portraits of Chief Justice Jay and Chief Justice White.

A number of other portraits of noted jurists have recently been added to the Law School's collection, which is one of the most notable of its kind in the world. Among these is a painting of Judge Julian Mack and another of Mr. Justice McKenna, a graduate of the Harvard Law School in the class of 1907.

Two other portraits recently acquired are one of Sir Thomas Plummer, painted by Thomas Laurence, and the other of Francis Bacon, Lord Vernlam, by Van Summers. There is also an oil painting of Mr. Justice Gould of the King's Bench.