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accorded to me young as I was.

The executing for copies of this portrait I became fully sensible of its deficiencies though satisfied that it possessed some points of merit, which subsequently enabled me to compose a better picture

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

- No 7 Stuarts 1st

Mr. Stuarts first Portrait of Washington was painted simultaneously with mine, in September 1795. From this portrait he made five copies; but becoming dissatisfied with it, some years afterwards, sold it for $200 to Winstanly the landscape painter. This I was informed of by Dr Thornton in Washington soon after it occurred so that it was not literally rubbed out, as it has been supposed. Winstanley took it to London where it was bought by Mr William Vaughan, and is now in the possession of Joseph Harrison of Philadelphia who has permitted me to make a facsimile of it.

Although this portrait was not satisfactory to Mr Stuart, you think that in the lower portion of the face it has the advantage over the portrait which he painted afterwards. A small copy of it