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Washington portraits by Wright and other artists explored
A survey of Washington portraiture discusses Wrights best oil works for Mrs Powell of Philadelphia and other versions in the Powell family, plus works by Pine, Savage, Wertmuller, Trumbull, Stuart, and Peale. It notes Washington declined sittings, praises or criticizes fidelity, and tracks portraits in private and public hands across America and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Historical Society
Wright
Washington
Beal
Comte de Solms
Konigstein
David Nichols
Salem Street
Boston
Robert Edge Pine
Sir Joshua Reynolds
America
Philadelphia
Mount Vernon
Francis Hopkinson
J. Carson Brevoort
Brooklyn
Pine
Claypoole
Washington Grays
Edward Savage
Princeton
Mass
Savage
Fitchburg
Harvard College
Harvard
New England Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts
John Sartain
Archibald Robertson
Aberdeen
Scotland
Earl of Buchan
Robertson
New York
Mes. C. W. Darling
Allen, N.Y
M. Mygatt
New York City
Lord Buehan
Dryburg Abbey
Karl Buchan
John ‘Trumbull
Jonathan Trumbull
Connecticut
Jonathan
John Trumbull
Martha Washington
Elizabeth Custis Law
Law
Washington Stuart
Stuart
Miss Johnston
Pierre -Eugene St
Ert Fulton
Jacques’ Due Barbiere Welborne
France
William Dunlap
New Jersey
William Bisch
Walter Robertson
Ireland
Robert Field
England
Rembrandt Peale
Valley Forge
Charles Willson Peale
James Peale
Raphael Peale
Hl. H. Huston
Rembrandt
South Carolina
W. A. Cooper
Preseason Street
James Sharpless
G. W. C. Lee
Virginia
George R. Goldsborough
Elizabeth Law
Sharpless
John Taylor Johnston
Johnston
F.C. Sayles
Pawtucket
R. Charles de St. Memin