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at Washington, 

My Portrait

This Duplicate Likeness I have generally chosen as my Model for the Copies I have made- give it as equally my original, being executed simultaneously with the Senatorial one. Judge Washington Sometimes preferred this sometimes the other My father preferred this. 

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

My Portrait of Washington was painted simply for my own gratification, with no other view than to have it as my Companion in Europe, which is afterwards proved to be in England France & Italy- at first caring for no other approbation beyond that of my father, by reason of his long acquaintance with Washington, & the numerous Portraits of him which he had painted.

The Picture was taken to Washington & placed in the ante-Senate Chamber for public inspection. Judge Marshall here recommended me to procure in writing the opinions of contemporaneous judges, as a duty which they owed to their country and to Posterity; and consequently gave his own in forcible expressions of approbation.

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