. Boston, a guide book . thistorical painting at the back ofthe platform, Websters Replyto Hayne, by G. P. A. Healy,contains one hundred and thirtyportraits of senators and othermen of distinction at that scene is the old SenateChamber, now the apartmentof the United States SupremeCourt. The canvas measuressixteen by thirty feet. The por-trait of Peter Faneuil, on oneside of this painting, is a copyby Colonel Henry Sargent, from a smaller portrait in the Art Museum,and was given to the city by Samuel Parkman, grandfather of the his-torian Parkman. It takes the place of a full-length p
. Boston, a guide book . thistorical painting at the back ofthe platform, Websters Replyto Hayne, by G. P. A. Healy,contains one hundred and thirtyportraits of senators and othermen of distinction at that scene is the old SenateChamber, now the apartmentof the United States SupremeCourt. The canvas measuressixteen by thirty feet. The por-trait of Peter Faneuil, on oneside of this painting, is a copyby Colonel Henry Sargent, from a smaller portrait in the Art Museum,and was given to the city by Samuel Parkman, grandfather of the his-torian Parkman. It takes the place of a full-length portrait executedby order of the town in 1744, as a testimony of respect to thedonor of the hall, which disappeared, and was probably destroyed, atthe siege of ]k)ston, — the fate also of portraits of George II, ColonelIsaac Barre, and Field Marshal Conway, the last two solicited by thetown in gratitude for their defense of Americans on the floor of Parlia-ment. The full-length Washington, on the other side of the great. Faneuil Hall ANCIENT AND HONORABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY 13 painting, is a Gilbert Stuart. It, also, was presented to the town bySamuel Parkman, in 1806. Of the portraits elsewhere hung, those ofWarren, Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, and John QuincyAdams are all Copleys. The General Harry Knox and the Commo-dore Preble are credited to Stuart. The Abraham Lincoln and RufusChoate are by Ames. The war governor, John A. Andrew, is byWilliam M. Hunt. The others — Robert Treat Paine, Caleb Strong,Edward Everett, Admiral Winslow, Wendell Phillips, and Anson Bur-lingame — are by various American painters. The ornamental clockin the face of the gallery over the main entrance was a gift of Bostonschool children in 1850. The gilded spread eagle was originally on thefa9ade of the United States Bank which, erected in 1798, precededthe first Merchants Exchange on State Street. The gilded grass-hopper on the cupola of the building, serving as a w^eather vane, is therecon
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