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New England Curator Voicing Support in Stuart Portrait Row
Saunderstown RI curator Mrs Kenneth Pettigrew says New England would back keeping Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington in Boston at the Museum of Fine Arts. The Athenaeum seeks 5 million to sell to the Smithsonian, while locals restore the 1750 snuff mill birthplace in a bid to keep heritage local.
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