. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . t; and in the evening of theday when Washington was inaugurated the first President ofthe United States, the following year, the front of her brothershouse was beautifully decorated with paintings by her ownhand, suggestive of the past, the present, and the future inAmerican history. These were illuminated by borderings oflamps upon the doors and windows. In the autumn of that year the marchioness persuadedPresident Washington to sit to her for his portrait>,in minia-ture. In his diary
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . t; and in the evening of theday when Washington was inaugurated the first President ofthe United States, the following year, the front of her brothershouse was beautifully decorated with paintings by her ownhand, suggestive of the past, the present, and the future inAmerican history. These were illuminated by borderings oflamps upon the doors and windows. In the autumn of that year the marchioness persuadedPresident Washington to sit to her for his portrait>,in minia-ture. In his diary, on Saturday, the 3d of October, he re-corded : Walked in the afternoon, and sat about two oclock forMadam de Brehan [Brienne] to complete a miniature profileof me, which she had begun from memory, and wLivh shehad made exceedingly like the original. AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 199 The marchioness made several copies of this picture, one ofwhich Washington presented to Mrs. Bingham, of Philadel-phia. From another, an engraving was afterward made inParis, and several impressions were sent to Washington. She. WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE. also painted on copper, in medallion form, the profiles of Wash-ington and Lafayette, in miniature, within the same circumfer-ence, and presented the picture to Washington. It is now atArlington House. Another foreign ladj, the wife of Peter J. Yon Berckel, ofEotterdam, the first embassador from Holland to the UnitedStates, was a great admirer of the character of Washington, andpainted an allegorical picture in testimony of her reverence forthe Liberator of his country. It was executed upon copper,eighteen by twenty inches in size. Tlie design, intending to becomplimentary to Washington, was well conceived. Upon thetop of a short, fluted column, was a bust of Washington, crowned 200 MOUNT VERNON
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