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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, a gifted newer member of our staff.
courtesy of Private Collection
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