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inviting to my Room several distinguished persons whom I could not so well otherwise invite among these were Chantry the Sculptor, and the Marquis of Strafford. after my return to -

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

on my return from Europe my Portrait was bought by the United States Senate for $2,000.

Simultaneously with the production of this Portrait in Senatorial Costume, I executed the Duplicate Study, in military Costume with the view of introducing it into a Composition intended to commemorate the Seige of Yorktown, which I painted at the instigation of Henry Clay ... This Picture is now in the Rotunda at Washington - offered to Congress.

The Equestrian Portrait of Washington, represents him in the act of giving command to commence the entrenchments, and accompanied by Lafayette, Hamilton, Knox, Lincoln & Rochambeau from originals painted by my father I was induced to select this subject, as the concluding act of the great Drama of the Revolution, from an anecdote told me by the Quaker Colonel Forest of Germantown Washington with his Generals, having surveyed