Show GIEL WHO POSED AS Washington Corr Corn New N w York C Post Port lany nY of the newspapers ue in their refer fter once enee to Queen Victoria Victorias s a death h have tt as one of her best known portraits painted d near the beginning of tier er reign by y Thomas Thoma Sully for the Uto St Georges Geerges G TP Society of A M Itt ter tnT written by b a daughter daught l of f Suny In m 1838 1 toils tells the story of the last hist sitting for lor fOIth tbs Ura th including perhaps the only eary case In history where an American girl gwi personated a queen n in the queens queen own owr presence and by her consent con It seem that Sully wished to have the loyal Joyal a ato to point from and the queen f DW p posed po to put them rhem on but he that the sitting would be too ten J ai 1 tedious and anti suggested that he be bel bellowed al allowed allowed lowed to bring his daughter as us his model Th The Il and the Ilea neu day oay he brought Mi Miss Blanche Blane e Sully to Co tN th u palace They Thov were ushered Into a room when near fled nea r a window was a date dan or ered aced with crimson and the queens throne chair of crimson and gold DM l lon on It W Ont One On of the th ladles ladle in waiting wal I deck the tho th young American girl Kid In to the thedla t mond earrings arring the collar of St Gec and the other jewels and j pose O o e her on th throne thront A moment later lahr Queen Victoria appeared hAs As the queen approached said ta tit girl in describing the scene to her Off friends I descended from the th in my borrowed plumes plume and made a roW loW 10 pD 00 Her majesty returned mediately entered into conversation me asking arking a k ng various questions ons a whether this was wall my m firt visit tt to toland Eng England E Eland land how I 1 liked it etc ett then t father tather ta her my age anI after aol an looking loo at the picture withdrew not nol however before my father had haJj her autograph Afterward the queen sent by a lady in irl waiting an ao autograph addressed to Mr Mv 1 Sully and one to Miss MI s Blanche with a nt UI tie tle head of herself her elf modeled In silver showing chewing her as a she looked look while Princess Prin s which she he requested ted the girl III t accept as a souvenir of the th visit A few days later Sully Sull took his daughter to pot po for tor him in the coronation robe rob They were furnished with proper credentials addressed to the queen and Miss nu Blanche hid hd to tire tile queen again The great robe she described as six yard ard long lone of velvet lined with ermine and an sj heavy that the rhe was heartily glad her ter father bad finished his sketches ketches |