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Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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p thoughtin the councils of war and of state. His portraits of, Washington arespirited, and as they represent him in the prime of life are by somepreferred to those by Stuart. Rembrandt Peale, when only seventeen,secured a sitting from Washington, and is reported as saying that thehonor agitated more than it inspired him. He completed a portrait, how-ever, in 1795. Charles Wilson Peale, the father of Rembrandt, paintedthe early portrait of Washington as a Virginia colonel. His brother,James Peale, becoming much interested in the subject, painted in 1778a very striking portrait of Washington from life, clad in the militaryuniform of the period, and this portrait, which became the property ofMr. David C. Claypoole of Philadelphia, was subsequently purchasedby James Lenox, and is now one of the choice treasures in the LenoxLibrary. The Earl of Buchan commissioned a Scotch artist, Archibald Robert-son, to cross the Atlantic and paint for him a portrait of Washington. GEORGE WASHINGTON IO3
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WASHINGTON. Original Painting by James Peale, now in Lenox Library. 104 GEORGE WASHINGTON This artist, toward the end of December, 1791, obtained sittings inPhiladelphia from both the President and Mrs. Washington, and paintedtheir miniatures, which he retained in his own possession, that of Wash-ington being converted into a brooch and worn by the ladies of his family.The portrait in oil afterwards finished for the Earl of Buchan gave exces-sive satisfaction. Robertson seems to have found great difficulty inquieting and securing a familiar expression from his Presidential sitter,and relates that finally Mrs. Washington came to the rescue, whose easy,polished and familiar gaity and ceaseless cheerfulness almost accomplisheda cure/ The artist himself was timid and much worried, and the Presidentwith his accustomed kindness invited him to a family dinner where,contrary to his usual habits, the stately Washington engrossed most of theconversation, and so delighted the company with humoro

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