fMri,('W4fl'!W'' 'Ti '' 'r"r EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUABY 22, 1922 NOTABLE PORTRAITS AND RELICS OF WASHINGTON AND HIS FAMILY W5t m. rl, tK. A iyter & Kfi $&& ,w U: 7ft ;?. t:s-- ij&fc j; H f "V te. rttf'H .v ;r: v. .iA l,rjr. sar? .tW5 sr &, V J' . ., ": ' 7.' 'VF . .s. &fc . & J s V ' ')!&. - T' PAS .1 ffiT ? - v V . ' ? -w-f; . -. &.' V?' 7V MARTHA WASHINGTON, THK WIFK. Tin- gentle, sw.-et-faced in Mies of .Mount Vernen, the tirst "Fii.-t Lmly of the Land" L ,,iW MAIiY HAM. WASHINGTON, THK MOTHER. tu uhnm Washington rt ti nt l gae ciedit fin nII Ins uoei'. Frem n nirc iilil pnnt &&rfy ;te sfc1 K JJ fc?& "-'- ' T3 ,r3. y fc -V Vr t--.ii" A'S&s'i "i-LSt t.."e'-. v?7 . ,cw'KVfT HOM ir; S3. V iffir-'A MA&IW&, IV. '-.. HOUDON LIFE MASK OF WASHINGTON IN INDEPENDENCE HALL. This ih n replica of the original by Jean Antoine Heuden, new owned by J. F Morgan T&Rl P ZutiVtT- !xl 'aL!?; r,M tf-V r. j iH-... -- -.vi r y "'" "-' gSEBA' ir .2 -ft. I,. THE "LANSDOWNE" PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON, HY GILBERT STUART. This the pri.e of the great Stuart collection in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It is believed te be one of the three eiit'innl portraits that Stuart painted of Washington from life. It is signed "G. Stuart," and dated 179t Irl ItrtrMl HmMfhlni ( iA m j . -jjwj1 A MODERN PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON. It is the wetk of Wilferd S. Conrow, and when ' exhibited recently at the National Gallery of Art in Washington it attracted wide attention if s M irzk e& ??.. i m l' M m -e .s .& rtri & ( MS m. C4'W & WW ?.!' a p.S 1 W 1i "r. fJBrVA- &SU ' " i.rf HtfU Mliitliit WASHINGTON'S ARM DINING-ROOM CHAIR, one of a set of six still preserved in the Punnsvlvaniu Historical Secietv :s ljn A,ui E3 : ! V THE EARLIEST LIFE PORTRAIT, UY CHARLES WILL SON PEALE. This was painted in 1772, when Washington was forty, and depicts him in the uniform of a Virginia colonel. This entry in Washington's accounts still exists: "By Mr. Peale draw ing my plot. 18 pounds, 4 shilling." In Pennsyl vania Historical Society "V7 - THE REMBRANDT PEALE PORTRAIT, IN THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY. Rembrandt .was one of the eleven children of Charles Willson Peale, the early Phila delphia painter. He painted three portraits of Washington from life, and made about eventy-flve- replicas . m u,tlt mh.u., r. CHE KKMIiltANDT PEALE POK- TRAIT IN CONGRESS HALL. This is considered by many critics te tie the best of the Washington portraits by thih artist i-v-rm r.Jtk zim r i-.v w'r, ",.vtjs.vi w &:?ffim AM '& 'm &M mi K. A'.&&1- EKl, V M, WASHINGTON'S DESK, in Peniuylvama Historical Society. This, and the chairs, were usefl when Washington was in Philadelphia as president nM inn me y
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