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costume with attendant & Horse in the Background. The attendant is a portrait of my Uncle. This Picture is in the possession of James Lenox, New York. It was repeated many times, by my father's nephew, Charles Peale Polk. who often flattered into the task of retouching his Copies. 

A small profile of Washington was painted in pastel by Mr. Sharpless at Mount Vernon. It is in the possession of Col. Lee of Arlington. It is an agreable likeness: but being of small size it wants that decision which dould not be given with crayons. A Duplicate is in the Library of the New York Historical Society; and an excellent one I saw in the possession of J nathan Bayard Smith of Philada. - on the back of which was a manuscript Eulogium on Washington written by an English gentleman arranged as for a momumental Inscription, with great taste & emphasis

Colonel John Trumbull, who had an early acquaintance with Washington as his Aid de Camp, in 1775, painted a portrait of him in 1790 for the City of New York. 

In 1792 he painted several whole-lengths, which are admired for their graceful elegance; but they want the peculiar dignity of Washington. one of them, now in the Trumbull Gallery. New Haven was by the artist considered not only the beat of those he had painted but the beat in his estimation which exists, of Washington in his heroic military character, as he conceived him at the Battle of Princeton, with the high resolve to conquer or to perish. This painting was intended for the City of Charleston, but a plainer one was substituted at their request...at the House previously occupied by Washington, Mrs. John Adams showed me a beautiful small whole-length by Trumbull, which I think was the original, from which his larger portraits were Copied - Trumbull's greatest excellence being in Heads of a small size, such as he uniformly made preparatory, for his historical Sketches. 

This opinion is corroborated by the memorandum in Washington's Diary of Feb: 9, 1790 - where he says "Sat to Mr. Trumbull to draw my Picture for his Historical Sketches." I have made a facsimile Copy of the Portrait in the New Haven Gallery. Washington was then 60 years of age, but appears much younger in this Portrait - probably influenced by the artist's early recollection of him. I am also under the impression that Col. Trumbull in making this Portrait was actuated by an undue admiration of Cerachi's Bust of Washington which was just then finished. I am confirmed in this impression from observing in the Trumbull Gallery, a finely finished Portrait of Cerachi himself - thus proving the Colone's intimacy with the sculptor & approbation of his talents. 

It is also my opjion that his portrait of Washington, painted in 1790, for the City of New York, is a better likeness than the one which the artist himself preferred, painted in 1792 - both of which, I presume, are founded on the small study painted for Historical Sketches. 

Westmiller, Historical Painter to the king of Sweden, came to this Country in 1791, & was distinguished by his beautiful picture of Danse. This Portrait was highly elaborated, but dark in the Colouring, and with a foreign aspect. It appears probable that the General bought it, & presented it to Mr. Casanove of Geneva. It is in the possession of Chs A Davis of N York. a good Engraving of it is prefixed to Irving's Life of Washington, where it can be perceived, by those who are competent to judge. That although there is some