Show when the great lord protector was sitting for or his portrait alt he suld said paint me as I 1 am if yo leave out a single wart 1 wont pay you a 8 penny I 1 all notable painters have not been bothered by St love of oaf truth a fact which might be proved by a portrait familiar to Ameti americans caus and indeed to people all over the world it Is only necessary 3 to compare the statue of the F father ather of his bis coun try by hogdon which stands in the statehouse in richmond vo va a re e of which was unveiled in tra fulgar square london a few years ago with gilbert stuarts painting or paintings of washington to see that his head of the first president is a glorified one indeed the port portraits rafts of the great man by other artists have not the regularity of feature that we have come to associate with him |