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18 Historical Society; and an excellent one I saw in the possession of Jonathan Bayard Smith of Philad'a on the back of which was a manuscript Eulogium on Washington written by an English gentleman arranged as for a monumental [[left margin]] 19 No 67 [[/left margin]] Inscription, with great taste and emphasis

No 6 Trumbull
Colonel John Trumbull, who had an early acquaintance, with Washington as his Aid de Camp, in 1775, painted a portrait of him in 1790
for the city of New York.

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In 1792 he painted several whole-lengths, which are admired for their graceful elegance; but they want the peculiar dignity of Washington. One of them, now in the Trumbull Gallery. New Haven was by the artist considered not only the best of those he had painted but the best, in his estimation which exists, of Washington in his heroic Military character, as he conceived him at the Battle of Princeton, with the high resolve to conquer or to perish. This painting was intended for the City of Charleston, but a plainer one was substituted at their request ... at the House previously occupied by Washington, Mrs John Adams showed me a beautiful small whole length by Trumbull, which I think was