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Title: The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874-
Subjects: Art museums Art Art
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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the founders of the Col-of New Jersey, a subscriber to the Philadel-phia Academy (afterwards the Tniversity of Penn-sylvania), a founder of the Pennsylvania Hospitaland the American Philosophical Society. Edward, son of the second Edward, and the sub-ject of the portrait, was bom in Philadelphia in1729 and died there in (806, having filled manyimportant offices, for which his profession of jurist fitted him. He was made chief justice of the Su-preme Court, by ( r McKean, in 1700. andheld the until his resignation in (805. Tohis pen we he first law reports in Pennsyl-vania. The best extant portrait of him is this oneby Gilbert Stuart, preserved by the Corcoran Gal-lery in Washington. His third daughter, Margaret,familiarly known as u Peggy Shippen/1 was a great belle and beauty in her day. and became the second wife of Benedict Arnold. It \\;h just such a man as this that inspired Stu-art- keenest interest, and the portrait is a superbspecimen of his most eloquent style, needing little
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PORTR Mi- ll IK F JUSTICE SHIPPEN,By I rilbert Stuart OF PENNSYLVANIA Earu? portrait painters 10a ml to attract the observer to its rare qualities of colour, character, form, and masterlypressh eness. The replica of the Athenaeum portrait of Wash-ington, by Gilbert Stuart, was presented to the Cor-coran Gallery in (902, by Mrs, Benjamin OgleTayloe, and though it appears a perfunctory exam-ple of this familiar type, its history is well authen-ticated. It was purchased from Stuart himself byColonel John Tayloe, of Mount Airy. The third Stuart is a u Portrait of Colonel Sam-uel Miles/1 and was a gift to the institution fromMiss Elizabeth F. McKean, in 1909. This is aninteresting and characteristic example, despite theravages of time and the restorer, which have com-bined to destroy the original vigour of the por-trait. As is well known, Stuart availed himself of everyad vantage offered by the surface upon which hepainted. The portrait of Colonel Miles is doneupon a wooden panel, which ha

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