The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-31

and the colony on the banks of the
| Potomac, known as Virginia, was for
many years very close one The
! greater part of the tobacco grown In
the colony was imported into Glas-
gov by the famous tobacco lords OF
scarlet cloak and cooked hat fame.
Chief among these merchant princes
was George Buchanan, personal
friend and neighbor of Washington at
the paternal home of the latter at
Mount Vernon. Va, So close were
Buchanan's relations with the Wash
ington family that when he built
mansion for himself on Eaashd ac-
quired by his father. who war provost
of this city. he named 1t Nbunt Vernon
after the name of the estate of his
friends in Virginia.
Another Glasgow man who took a
great interest in Washington as a
who sent Washington as an ambassa-
dor to the French to inquire regard
ing the encroachment they We're max
ing on British territory in the Ohio
Valley.
cit is probable that either Dinwiddie
would bring home with him a portrait
of his protege. or George Buchanan
that of his llustrious Virginia friend.
and that that portrait may have sub
sequently become the property of the
| city. as already suggested, through a
temporary loan. and never reclaimed.
THE strongest evidence, however. for
J some such theory is found in the pic
| ture itself Many prominent Americans
and others who have seen the picture
in the Peoples Palace are of the opin-
ion that 1t bears a general likeness to
other portraits of Washington. though
1t represents him as probably ten years
| younger than any existing portrait.
They think that the story Is not only
probable, but that the picture at the
| green is an actual portrait of George
| Washington. as a young man. There
are the same blue gray eyes and brown
/ hair One of his biographies thus de-
scribes him before he was out of his
| teens:
..In stature he is much above most
| youths of the same age. He is of
noble. robust form, with high and
| strong, but smooth features, light
| brown hair, large blue eyes, not hrll-s
| liant but heamlng with a clear and
| steady light as If a. soul looked through!
| them that knew no faint of vice or
meanness and a countenance aglow
4 with truth and courage. modest gentle
! ness and manly self-reliance,
Description Fits Picture.
"This description corresponds very
closely with the picture referred to.
| The setting too, Is truly American.
In the background are to be seen some
trees and plants, conspicuous amongst
which are the leaves of the familiar
morning glory, convolvulus of America.
I THE picture is a llfe-sized military
portrait of the Vandyke school, and
may have been painted by John Watson.
of Edinburgh, one of the fathers OF
| American art.
| There Is at present movement on
/ foot to secure the consent of the cor
Eoration OF Glasgow to lend the plct
ture for a few months for. exhibition
purposes at the Jamestown Exposition
/ being held this year In celebration Of
! the three hundredth anniversary ofgthl
i permanent settlement OF the Anglo
/ Saxon race within the limit of the
| United States.
/. 1T was there, on the banks of the
/ James River In Nirginia, that a COM
/ pany of los colonists, under Christie,
pher Newport founded colony In thu
year 1907.
.All the portraits that can be Sc.
| cured of the famous Virgintan soldiers
i scholars and statesmen are beina
/ placed on view at the exposition, ana
4 the American people are naturally
4 jealous to add the picture now IN tha
Peoples Palace to the loan exposition
Il at Jamestown s.s X NH
q q ToE r a..