Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . elf. Signed in full below at the right. The second gallery, known as the Allston Room, is filled withthe works of early American painters. Nos. loi to 124 are byWashington Allston; Nos. 12C) to 139 are works by GilbertStuart, idle most famous of these ])ictures arc known as theAtheneum portraits of George and Alartha Washington. Theywere painted from life, in 1796, and bought after Stuarts death,of his widow, and presented to the Boston Atheneum, Nos. 147-164 are by the historical and portrait painter JohnSingleton Copley. No. 150 is a port
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . elf. Signed in full below at the right. The second gallery, known as the Allston Room, is filled withthe works of early American painters. Nos. loi to 124 are byWashington Allston; Nos. 12C) to 139 are works by GilbertStuart, idle most famous of these ])ictures arc known as theAtheneum portraits of George and Alartha Washington. Theywere painted from life, in 1796, and bought after Stuarts death,of his widow, and presented to the Boston Atheneum, Nos. 147-164 are by the historical and portrait painter JohnSingleton Copley. No. 150 is a portrait of the artist and hisfamily. The artist stands behind. Before him is Air. KichardClarke, father of Mrs. Copley, who, seated on a sofa, caresses herson, John, the future Lord Lyndhurst, three times Lord Chan-cellor of England. In front stands her daughter, Elizabeth, after-ward Mrs. Gardiner Greene. Nos. 168 and 169 are by John Smibert. Nos. 172-177 are the works of John Trumbull. No. 173 is hisportrait of Alexander Hamilton. 42 GUIDE TO PHOTO BY COOLIDGE. ISABELLA AND THE POT OF by John W. Alexander. Other picturesworthy of note inthis room are , portrait of JohnQuincy Adams, byWilliam Page; , portrait of N. , by FrankAlexander; No. 184,portrait of Washing-ton, by RembrandtPeale; No. 185. Headof Washington, byCharles W. Peale;No. 188, portrait ofLongfellow, by G. Healy, and , portrait ofCharles Sumner, byWilliam Willard. In the third pic-ture gallery are ex-amples of the Eng-lish and FrenchSchools, XVIII. andXIX. the most fa-mous pictures hereare: No. 200, TheSlave Ship, and , Mouth of theSeine, by J. M. ; Nos. 207 and208, by John Consta-ble; Nos. 214 to 217,by Sir Joshua Rey-nolds, and No. 238,portrait of Franklin, THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND OTHER COLLECTIONS. 43 by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis. In the fourth and fifthpicture galleries are examples of the work of many mod-ern painters. No.
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