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Title: Paul Revere, the torch bearer of the revolution
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Moses, Belle
Subjects: Revere, Paul, 1735-1818
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aul Revere in his boyhood and early youth. Wecan only picture to ourselves the sturdy youngsterwith his square jaw, dark hair, and keen brighteyes; but we must remember at the same time thathis boyhood was spent as his fathers apprentice andhe was nearly thirty years old before he came intoprominence and quite forty when he took the fa-mous ride. John Singleton Copley who was a friend of thefamily painted a portrait of him, said by those whohave been fortunate enough to see it to be the mostcharacteristic of any of his pictures. It shows himin the prime of manhood sitting at his work-tablesurrounded by tools of every description. In hisleft hand he holds a silver tea-pot; his right hand issupporting his chin. He is in his shirt sleeves andwears a blue waistcoat — every inch of him themaster workman proud of his trade. There areonly two other original portraits of Revere, one byGilbert Stuart which represents him in his old age,and a crayon portrait by a celebrated French artist, 264
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The Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Paul Revere. A MEMORY Fevret de St. Memin, who came to America andtraveled from state to state taking portraits of well-known people. Gilbert Stuart in his portrait has given us acourtly old gentleman; there is none of the stoopof age about his well-poised head, and his snowyhair never thinned to baldness. Most of his con-temporaries were forced early in life to wear wigs— not so Paul Revere — even when powdered wigswere the fashion he wore his own hair tied with aribbon. His mouth had lost somewhat of its stern-ness, but the dark expressive eyes had never grownold. He looked like a man whose sagacity andcourage the weight of years could never dim. St. Memins portraits were usually profiles and thegifted artist had a way of reducing these crayons tomedallion size and engraving them on copper.There were two medallions of the original crayonof Paul Revere, one owned by Wm. C. Lincoln ofHingham, Mass., a great-grandson, while the otherbelongs to the Bos

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