When
I went to public school in the 1950's there was always a reproduction
of Gilbert Stuart's unfinished "Atheneum Portrait" of George Washington
in the classroom. These "before" and "after" photographs are of
a painting which hung in a schoolhouse built in 1841. The painting
was signed by an unidentified French artist who might have copied
a Stuart original, and the painting apparently hung in the building
from the time it was built. The painfully difficult filling and
color matching were beautifully executed by Anthony Graves. Courtesy of Private Collection
Peter
Williams/Museum Services
30 Ipswich Street • Boston, MA 02215 • USA
Telephone: 617-536-4092 • Fax: 617-536-7119
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