Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . evious to his arrival in America, not onlyas an artist of acknowledged eminence, but as one who haddiscovered a friendly disposition toward this country, forwhich it seems he had been marked. While at Mount Yernon Pine painted the portraits of twoof Mrs. Washingtons grandchildren. These were ElizabethParke Custis, then about nine years of age, who afterwardmarried Mr. Law, a wealthy English gentleman; and GeorgeWashington Parke Custis, the last survivor of his family, whodied at Arlington House, on the Potomac, in the
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . evious to his arrival in America, not onlyas an artist of acknowledged eminence, but as one who haddiscovered a friendly disposition toward this country, forwhich it seems he had been marked. While at Mount Yernon Pine painted the portraits of twoof Mrs. Washingtons grandchildren. These were ElizabethParke Custis, then about nine years of age, who afterwardmarried Mr. Law, a wealthy English gentleman; and GeorgeWashington Parke Custis, the last survivor of his family, whodied at Arlington House, on the Potomac, in the autumn of1857. The pictures are exquisitely painted, and, like all ofPines productions, the colors retain their original vividness. Elizabeth is represented as a beautiful girl, with rich brownhair lying in careless curls, and in, great profusion, upon herhead and neck, her bosom covered with very light drapery,and having lying upon it the miniature of her father, JohnParke Custis (printed on page 84 of this volume), suspendedby a ribbon around her neck. 168 MOUNT VERNON. ELIZABETH PARKE CUSTIS. The brother was then between four and five years of is represented as a fair-haired child, with loose summergarments, and carrying in his hand a branch with two orthree leaves upon it. These pictures now occupy a con-spicuous place upon the walls of the drawing-room at Arling-ton House. Pines grand design was never carried out. He died fouror five years after his visit to Mount Yernon, and his familyreturned to England. The portraits which he had paintedwere sold and scattered. That of Washington was afterwardfound in Montreal, and purchased by the late Henry Brevoort,of Bedford, Long Island, and is now in possession of his son,J. Carson Brevoort. AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 169
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