. Art and artists of our time. lt the embarrassment of the situation and himself needed to be drawn the first sitting he tried many subjects, hoping to engage Washington in talk, butwithout success, and according to his own statement he was so dissatisfied with the result ofhis labor that he rubbed out what he had done. In 1796, at the request of Mrs. Bingham,Washington sat to Stuart for a full-length portrait which Mr. Bingham wished to present toLord Lansdowne. This is one story. Another, told by Stuart to John Neagle, the portrait-painter, is that Lord Lansdowne himself gave the
. Art and artists of our time. lt the embarrassment of the situation and himself needed to be drawn the first sitting he tried many subjects, hoping to engage Washington in talk, butwithout success, and according to his own statement he was so dissatisfied with the result ofhis labor that he rubbed out what he had done. In 1796, at the request of Mrs. Bingham,Washington sat to Stuart for a full-length portrait which Mr. Bingham wished to present toLord Lansdowne. This is one story. Another, told by Stuart to John Neagle, the portrait-painter, is that Lord Lansdowne himself gave the commission to Stuart, and that when it wasdone, Mr. Bingham, a rich man of Philadelphia, waited upon Mr. Stuart and begged as. afavor that he might be allowed the honor of paying for the picture and presenting it to Lord ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 203 Lansdowne. Stuart after some deliberation consented, bnt he asked Mr. Bingham to have itcopyrighted. This Mr. Bingham forgot to do, and when it arrived in London it was seen by. MRS. THOMAS SULLY. FROM THE PAINTING BY THOMAS SULLY. PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION. Heath, one of the best engravers of the day, who with Lord Lansdownes consent made thatvery unsatisfactory engraving which was at one time spread broadcast over this country and 204 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. over Europe and which is lettered: Painted by Grabriel Stuart, 1797. The Lansdowne por-trait lias been ridiculed as the tea-pot picture, without much reason for the fancy that seesin the extended right arm a resemblance to the nose of a tea-pot. Washington is standingby a table with books, etc., his right hand is stretched, out as if he were speaking, his lefthand rests on the hilt of a dress-sword at his side. He wears the familiar full-dress costumeof gentlemen of the time, a coat and vest of velvet, with breeches and silk stockings, andlace ruffles at neck and hands, and has powdered hair. Stuart made several copies of thispicture, which are in this country; the orig
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