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At a recent meeting of the Jeffer son County Historical Society at Madison a mention of LaFayette's enforced stay over night in Perry county, Indiana, on the occasion of the sinking of the steamboat Me chanic, at Rock Island, brought forth a statement, or rather several conflicting statements con cerning the full length portrait of Lafayette in the historical rooms which will be recalled by all who have visited Madison. The state ment was made that on Lafayette’s journey up the river, after his stay in Perry county, and the dinner giv en in his honor at Jeffersonville, his boat stopped at a village across the river from Madison, and that he was visited there by a delegation of citi zens, among them a number of Ma sons of which order he was a mem ber, and that one of the party paint ed this portrait. This story was contradicted by an other member of the society who had been told that Lafayette had brought the portrait with him and presented it to the Masonic lodge of Madison, but this does not seem plausible, since everything Lafayette carried with him, clothing, souvenirs and money, was lost with the sinking of the boat. Now comes the statement from Madison that ‘‘in the minutes of the Masonic lodge of that city, it is stated that the portrait wa given to the lodge by Richard Terryl, ‘‘who ever he might be,’’ adds the corre spondent, concluding: ‘I am told that there is a duplicate of this one in the statehouse at Frankfort, Ky., which is the original, which the copy; no one seems to know.’’ Here is a fresh field for research. This LaFayette portrait is not signed, indeed none of the early por traits found in this state are signed, so it is difficult to learn the names of the artists. In the home of Mrs. Edward Eggleston, of Madison, hangs a handsome portrait of her an cestor, Judge Miles Cary Eggleston; the fact that she and her distinguished husband were distantly related is not generally known. This por trait of Judge Eggleston, “‘said to be the most famous judge that ever held court in the state,’’ is much superior to most of the portraits of that per iod; the flesh tints are fine, the ex pression lifelike; it is, indeed, the kind of portrait everyone would like to have ‘‘in the family.”’ There is no mark on the canvas to indentify the artist and no tradition as to who might have painted it. Kate Milner Rabb.
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Madison Daily Herald
Madison, Indiana, US
Sat, Jun 18, 1921
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