Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-02-21
IlFE-PORTRAlTS OF WASHINGTON

by the Ladies' Mount Vernon Associa-
ton, to whom Il was presented. 1873. by
the artists heirs.
In 1882 Washington sat to the French
artist, Labatut for a miniature which ne
gave 10 Charles 'Cotesworth Pinckney
OF South Carolina. II was bought, at his
death. by Charles Watson, OF Charles
ton. and has passed to his grand daugh-
ter Miss l.. T. Watson. OF New YORK.
During the French Revolution, LOUIS
XVI. sent his celebrated painter Bar
hiere. 10 America to secure n miniature
Of the great man. who improved his OPP
portunity by making a duplicate FOR him
self. which was sold with his effects, ana
purchased by c. Duhamel, OF New Or
leans.
WRIGHTS PORTRAIT.
Among the most reliable likenesses OF
Washington are those from the brush OF
the Quaker artist. Joseph Wright OF
Bordentown. N j., who presented q let
ter OF introduction TO him from FRANKLIN
at Rocky Hll, where he sat to MN LOT
n cabinet painting for Francis nopkin-
son row owned by Mrs. Annie Hopkin-
son Fogco. OF Philadelphia. Wrights
oil-painting Of the General. executed IN
1884 in fulfilmcnt OF an order from Mrs.
Powell formerly Miss Elizabeth willing,
Of philadelphia, was pronounced by It's
subject the best for which he had then
cot II descended to Mr.. Samuel Powell.
~ Newport. r.. l.. and has never until
recently. been engraved. Wright was ap-
pointed by washington draughtsman
OF the Mint Immediately after It's estao-
lshment and the first United STATES coins
were designed by him. 49,
An interesting portrait or the heio
which has always remained in the Lee
family IS owned by Mrs Thomas Miller,
of Leesburg. Va IL has been attributed
both 10 the elder Peale, and TO his pupil
relative. and namesake, Charles Peale
Polk. the best-established testimony pc
ing that Peale painted the head and POLK
the figure.
A sitting 10 the English painter, Robert
Edge Pine. took place in 1855, in the paint
,ng-room attached to the residence or
Robert Morris. the Philadelphia banker
This portrait is now the property or MT
Carson Brevoort, Of Brooklyn. ana Whlle
a faithful portrayal Of the subject, does
not give the best phase OF his appearance,
having been taken Immediately after MS
recovery from a spell Of Illness. WASH
ington afterwards sat to Pine at Mount
Vernon.
During the fall OF 17SS Madame DE
Breban (whlle visiting Mount Vernon with
her brother, Count de Moustier, French
Minister TO the United States made
profile likeness of her host. which he pro-
nounces in his diary exceedingly like the
original" The artist made several copies
of this work, one of which she gave TO
Mrs. Bingham, formerly the beautiful Ann
Willing, of Philadelphia.
In 1889 John Ramage, OF Ireland, painted
q miniature of the President, which MIS-
washington honored by wearing In
brooch. and during the same year, WINS
in Boston, he sat to Christian Gulager' OF
Denmark. for an oil painting designed Ior
Fanueil Hall. This painting is owned by
Mrs. Arthur Goldman, Of Bristol, X. L.
and. II like the subject IS certainly very
different from all existing representations
OF him.
During the year 1870 Edward Savage
painted Washington several times from
life. but not with satisfactory results 10
those who knew him. We are indebted 10
him, however. for the only family group
ever painted Of the household at Mount
Vernon
IN IVORY AND OIL
In 1871 Archibald Robertson, the
REYNOLDS of Scotland" armed with
commission from The Earl of Buchan,
spent six weeks at the Executive Man
sion, where he painted the PRESIDENT IN
oil and on ivory. His representation III
oil was approved both by the subject
and bv the noble lord for whom 1t was
intended. The miniatures the artist re-
tanned. and they have since passed 10
his eranddaughters-Mrs. c. w. Darl-
ing. of Utica, and Mrs. S. NJ. Mygatt,
of New York city. In 1876 Robertson
painted two other miniatures OF WASH
ington, which the latter presented as
wedding gifts to his wife's granddaugh-
ters. These splendid heirlooms, lncased
in heavy gold frames, with enamelled
backs. the one studded with DIAMONDS
and the other with pearls, are owned
nv two descendants of Mrs Washing
ton-Mr. Edmund Law Rogers, OF Bal
timore. and Mrs. Beverley Kennon, OF
GEORGETOWN. In 1874 Washington refused
n sitting to the English enamel painter
William Birch. but permitted him 10 be
present while he was engaged IN ms
Cabinet, Birch secured second sltths
through a clever device OF General NC
Pherson, who concealed him, with ms
painting apparatus. behind screen IN
the room on a day when the president
was to dine with him. BY preconcerteo
ARRANGEMENT, an army comrade related
q long story after the wine was brought
on. and when Washington's interest was
aroused the artist made the covered
sketch. The miniature painted from TINS
study has never been out OF the NC
Pherson family. Copies OF 1t were owned
by the McHenrys of Maryland; and by
MIR. Charles c. Barney, or Rlcnnonu'
Va. who ran the blockade during the
civil war with the cherished rene con-
cealed about his person.
Walter Robertson, Of Ireland, executed
n miniature of Washington from life the
fate of which is unknown, although IL
was pronounced by the English artist
Robert Field, TO be as good likeness
and as fine q piece Of painting as he had
ever seen ,,-... -,
Field. too. painted several miniatures OF
him. making studies while at Mount YER
non. In 1898. Two of these belong 10 MIS-
Wilson Eyre, of Newport, r. l.; one 10
Mr.. Lawrence Lewis Conrad, or balt-
more: while a fourth was sent by General
Lafayette to Simon Bolivar In lS-o as
Gift from Bushrod Washington.
There is also life miniature OF WASH
ington. painted in 1876, by p. A. Peticoias'
which Is owned by f. c. Sayles, OF Paw
tucket, r. /. -
OIL paintings, from unrecorded sittings'
hut bearing unmistakable evidence or De
ing originals, exist of him from the Drush
of the Swedish artist, Adolph Wertmulier'
and also from Charles Memin, or france
The studies for them were probably Hlaue
while the President was engaged In soihe
public function: and Memin's-a PRONE
view. and now the property OF SamneI
Brevoort, of Brooklyn-was pronounced
by Jefferson the most accurate rendering
of his features which he had seen. Vert
muller was an idealst, and his portraits
although beautiful as works Of art, were
not likenesses. One Of his representations
of washington is owned by DR.. Bogart' OF
New York; another by Benjamin r.
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