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without injuring the portrait he at last succeeded by a bold strake with a broad hammer directly at the head. These Pitcher portraits from their novelty had a temporary reputation. One of them is framed at Mount Vernon

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"The last time I had the advantage of seeing Washington, was in the spring of 1799-in the ruddy glow of perfect health-thus terminating my personal knowledge of him during a period of thirteen years.
After his death in December of that year, his family and friends lamented that they possessed no portrait of him which they considered entirely satisfactory...I had made numerous copies of my father's various portraits of Washington. Not fully satisfied with any of them nor with Trumbulls, nor Pine nor Westmullers, - nor Stuarts - nor my own the each possessed some peculiar merit; I made, from time to time; various attempts, chiefly to combine the results of the sitting given to me and my father. These attempts were made under observance of artists and