  AMERICAN FORCES, DURING THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THE INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTRY, AND UNITED STATES. COMPILED UNDER THE INSPECTION OF THE HONOURABLE AN INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE COLONIES INDEPENDENCE. BY JOHN MARSHALL. VOL. III. ILLUSTRATIONS George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart Martha spines (102K) George Washington George Washington From the portrait by Gilbert Stuart This canvas, valued at $60,000, hangs in the Masonic Lodge rooms at Fredericksburg, Virginia. It is one of the several portraits of Washington which the artist began executing in 1795 and which are the most famous of both artist and sitter. Of our First President, this celebrated painter has also given us his interesting pen-picture of his subject: "All of his features were indications of the strongest and most ungovernable passions, and had he been born in the forest, he would have been the fiercest man among the savage tribes." THELIFEOFGEORGE WASHINGTON,COMMANDER IN CHIEFOF THE |
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