Show v v 0 F The Nations Nation's Greatest Son i A 00 W Y 7 E 1 t tl 1 ie 1 i yx yV fi 1 1 l f 7 lj tr t I I E r ry 7 T iV y 1 t ir 1 I N h ii M bf 1 3 x r r t t r I IS J Jt S IL S S 1 t tf 1 I SS w YH 4 j t I I IS i y yi i S SS Sv i S v AVe AVeS AVei y 0 y i S 2 es t r i f y 1 portrait or of George Washington highly prized possession or of Marahall Solberg ChIcago le Is claimed by him to have been painted by Gilbert Stuart It bears bean tho year 1794 and i is signed by the master in an inconspicuous way Some have thou thought t that tha ear earliest est Stuart Washington was pl pointed In 1195 but such luch Is not the CAse tor John Jay Jy gave Gilbert Stuart a letter to Washington Stuart delivered whIle congress wu was In session In the tho year 1794 1704 and Stuart refers to this In correspondence with relatives It was then that one of the three sittings occurred There were many or of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart hut but there thue weri were only three w 0 that many or of the portraits were copied by Stuart from either completed pictures or sketches ketches It was or of course not Dot entirely unusual for or great painters to make preliminary sketches ketches or of their subjects although they thay did didon didon on many occasions entirely complete theta painting at This latter procedure was Wol followed It is tho thought ht by Gilbert Stuart In this portrait If this is 1 so 10 It stands unique among the Stunt Stuart n According to a volume In Mr Solberga Gilbert Stuart admired aeu w r I td It himself and would not part with It for many years thereafter When It landed In the hands or of Congressman Cong Gilbert of w st tn New York ho loved It w so much that he bo asked that It might be the fait Lut object t for him to gaze Baze upon In this life |