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by Savage for Cambridge College - by Dunlap as Rocky Hill Gulager at Portsmouth Madame Brehen - Wright of Philadelphia Ramage - Robertson of New York, and by Birch, in Enamel, from Stuart

[[stamp]] ARCHIVES OF AMERICA ART [[/stamp]]|

In the autumn of 1795, as the solicitation of My Father Washington consented to sit expressly to me - and the hour he chose was seven in the morning. Fearing that I might not profit by sittings of so much value, I induced, my Father also to make a study alongside of me - Close at my right hand thus securing a double chance of success, with the advantage afforded by conversation between him and the General --- He could not sit the next day - Mrs Washington informing me that he was engaged to sit to Mr Stuart, a celebrated american Just returned from Dublin
Washington gave me three sittings, of three hours each. Profitting by the opportunity my Uncle James Peale, during the 2nd and 3rd sittings, at my left hand, painted a miniature on Ivory; and an Elder Brother, for a few