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[[stamp]] ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART [[/stamp]]

on his forehead, but his projecting Brows case a filmy shade over the large Orbit of his eyes, which thus appeared deeply sunken. The impression remained on my memory for future benefit. My father's first acquaintance with Washington began in the year 1772. when he was invited to Mount Vernon to paint a portrait of him. This portrait, the first for which he ever sat, represents him, at the age 40, as Colonel of the Alexandria Militia, in the British uniform - Blue turned up with red.

Here we have Washington, antecedent to the Revolutionary Contest, before the calmness of his brow had become depressed and corrugated by the mighty Cares, under which he was oppressed, as no Patriot Chieftain ever was... The habitual silence of Washington is indicated in this Portrait by the smallness of his lips - [[strikethrough]] singularly contrasting with the expansive organ of the eloquent Henry Clay. [[/strikethough]] The Original [[strikethrough]] of this Portrait is at Arlington House. Dr Craik, Washington's earliest and latest Physician, always thought it [[strikethrough]] his portrait [[/strikethrough]] a better likeness than any other Portrait. My father, at Mount Vernon, also painted several miniatures and remained