The History of a Rare Washington Print : a Paper Read Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, May 6, 1889
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349. ' A half-length, painted for John Hancock. * A full-length, said to have been painted to the order of Congress, but that body having made no appropriation for payment, the picture remained in the hands of the artist. It is now owned by Mr. H. Pratt Mc- Kean, of Philadelphia, having been purchased by him at the time of the dispersion of the Peale Gallery. Mr. Peale made several copies of this picture. One of these copies, captured by Captain Keppel of the British navy, in 1780, when on its ...way to Holland, has from that time been in possession of the Keppel family, Quiddenham Hall, Norfolk, England ; a second, formerly the property of the Count de Menbu, is now owned by the United States government ; and a third, known through the en- graving by Wolff, is in the gallery at Versailles. In all of these pictures Washington is resting by the left hand on a cannon. The History of a Rare Washington Print. 7 painted fourteen portraits of Washington from life, the last in 1795, and of these he seems to have made many copies or repetitions.
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