The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-04-23

OF al! the known portraits of w aShing-
ton, from which the following facts are
gathered
: Charles w Peale painted fourteen
such portraits from life, from l772 to
1795.
Houdon, Of Paris, the author of the
celebrated statue Of Voltaric, which
stands in the vestibul- of the Theatre
Franchise, modelled his bust by cast
from the life in plaster, taken at Mount
Vernon in 1888, He made several OF
these buSts, one Of which is in the pres
ent collection. The narhle statue at
Richmond is by this ARTIST.
! J. Wright, of Philadelphia, painted
his portrait at Headquarters, Rock
Hill. New jersey, in 1883. This is now,
or was formerly. IN the possession of
Mr.. Powell, of Philadelphia.
! The late VIM. Dunlap painted his
portrait at Rock Hill, in 1888.
Pine, of England, painted portrait
in ITS, being now in the collection at
the Art Union.
Col. Trumbull painted full-l-ngth
in 1860, which is now in the City Hall
Of this City.
Cerrachi. of Rome, modelled two
busts in marble, one of which belonged
to Richard Mead Esq; of Philadelphia,
the other was of colossal size, a cast
from which was in the Academy of Fine
Arts, New York.
Archibald Robertson. of New York,
painted a portrait in 1882.
Wertmuler, Of Sweden, painted an
original in 1892, which was in the pos
session Of Cornelius Bogart Esq, ia
maica, Long Island.
Savage painted and engraved the
Washington tamil y about the year 1894.
The original was in his Museum, in
this city, many years ago.
James Peale painted two originals,
the date of the first unknown, of the
second, 1898.
Sharpless painted two small portraits
in crayons, one a profile, the other a
neat front view, in 1896. One Of these,
we believe, is at the Art Union.
Rembrandt Pvale (son of c. W..
Peale) painted him in 1875, while his
father was executing his work.
Guilbert Stuart, it is stated, painted
two originals-on- IN September, 1875,
and the other at Philadelphia in the
/ spring of 1876. The first. the artist
himself pronounced TO be failure, al
though he made several copies Of it,
and it has been engraved by Holloway
for Hunters edition of Layater. The
second is the picture by which the
features of the hero have been made
most widely known to his countrymen,
II Is a head only, and is now in the pos
session OF the Boston AthrnRum. Sew
eral pictures were executed by Stuart
from this original, ONT Of the best Of
which is that belonging to Mrs. Pierre.
pont, now exhibited.
The VANITY OF LlFE.-The follow
ing, from late speech of Mr.. Benton,
! is touching exhibition Of the vanity
! OF lOllllCal dIHDltlOn.
II have gone through a contest to
which had no heat, and into which |
was forced by combinations against life
and honor, and from which gladly es-
cape. What is seat tn Congress to
me! have sat thirty years in the high.
est branches of Congress, have made a
name to which can expect TO add moth
ing, and should only be anxious to save
what has been gained. have domestic
affections, soreIy lacerated in these lat.
ter times; wife whom have never
neglected. and who needs my attention
now more than ever; children, some sep.
arated from me by the wide expanse of
oceans and continents, others by the
slender bonds which the, P<almist assigns
for the limit of mani Y life, and must be
,houghtless indeed, if do not think of
something beyond the tleeting and shad-
owy pursuits of this life, of all of which
have seen the vanity. What is my
occupationl Ask the undertaken, that
good Mr.. Lynch, whose face, present on
SO many mourniul occasions, has become
pleasant to me. He knows what occu-
pies my thoughts and cares, gathering
the bones of the dead, mother, a sister,
two sons, a grand-child; planting the
cypress over assembled graves, and
marking the spot wh're !, and those
who are dear to me, are soon to be LAID;
all on the sunset side of the father Of
floods, the towering city of St. Louis
on one hand, and the rolling stream of
the Missouri on the other, and where a
cemetery of large dimensions is TO be
the future metropolis Of unnumbered
generations. These are nay thoughts and
cares, and the undertaken knows them"
! U Sorrow treads heavily and leaves