. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . f art, except wlien stern necessity compelled him to employthem in earning his daily food. Thus he worked on until away was opened for him to go to England and place himselfunder the instruction of Benjamin West, the great Americanpainter, then the loved companion of the king. Two years heremained with West, and in 1769, Cliarles Willson Peale, theyoung artist referred to, returned to his native country and setup his easel as a portrait painter at Annapolis and Baltimorewith wonderful suc
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . f art, except wlien stern necessity compelled him to employthem in earning his daily food. Thus he worked on until away was opened for him to go to England and place himselfunder the instruction of Benjamin West, the great Americanpainter, then the loved companion of the king. Two years heremained with West, and in 1769, Cliarles Willson Peale, theyoung artist referred to, returned to his native country and setup his easel as a portrait painter at Annapolis and Baltimorewith wonderful success. The fame of the young painter soon reached Mount Yernon,and he was invited there to delineate, for the first time, theform and features of the noble lord of the manor. Heexecuted the commission admirably, and produced a fineportrait of Washington at the age of forty years, life size, a AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 95 little more tlian half-length, and in the costume of a colonel ofthe twenty-second regiment of the Virginia Militia. The coatis blue, with red facings, and bright metal buttons, having the. CHARLES WltLSON PEALE. number of the regiment ( 22) cast upon them. The waist-coat and breeches are also red, and the sash, a faded purple. When, in 1797 or 98, Field, an English miniature painterand engraver of some eminence, visitedMount Yernon, he slept in a room in whichhung Washingtons old military coat. Thepainter cut off one of the buttons, andbrought it away with him, regarding thetransaction as a pious theft, no doubt, be- •T WASHINGTON S cause prompted by veneration for the owner. military button was in the possession of John F. Watson, Esq.,
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