Book/Printed Material History and descriptive details of Middleton's portraits of Mary, the mother of Washington, and Mary Phillipse (Washington's early love) also, of the Sharples portraits of Washington, and Martha, his wife, Robert Fulton and his wife, and of beautiful women of the revolutionary period ... Copy 1
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Image 1 of Copy 1- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 3 of Copy 1 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/historydescripti01walt- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 4 of Copy 1- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 5 of Copy 1- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 6 of Copy 1- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 7 of Copy 1 HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE OIL PAINTINGS of MARY PHILLIPSE (Washington s Early Love) Also, THE SHARPLES PAINTINGS OF AND OF ROBERT FULTON and his WIFE AND OF PRIESTLEY and CHIEF-JUSTICE MARSHALL Together...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 8 of Copy 1 MAJOR WALTER S Work entitled MEMORIALS OF WASHINGTON, AND OF MART, HIS MOTHER, AND MARTHA, HIS WIFE, is just published by Sceibnee s Sons, of New York. It is an elegantly printed...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 9 of Copy 1 HISTORY AND DESCRIPTIVE DETAILS OF MIDDLETON S PORTRAITS OF Mary, the mother of Washington AND T MARY PHILLIPSE (Washington s karly love) ALSO, OF THE SHARPLES PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON, AND MARTHA, HIS...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 11 of Copy 1 The small collection of portraits, painted in oils, subject of this descriptive Catalogue, has been truthfully characterized by the leading journals as the most important and interesting ever submitted to the view...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 12 of Copy 1 handed them down to posterity. Included with these is the celebrated painting in oils of Peter Stuyvesant s Renowned Army Entering New York; so graphically described by Wash- ington Irving in his...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 13 of Copy 1 quarters in Pliiladelpliia, being reduced to such a condition as to prevent its being bung in any but a bed-chamber. Sliarples, when at Mount Vernon painting the great chief and his wife,...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 14 of Copy 1 6 matters. He had offered his services in getting the painting repaired, and which Washington declined. Washington s yearning to his mother s portrait evidences endearment and devoted affection. Mr. Carter would...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 15 of Copy 1 by taking him under my care I miglit impress liim with ideas and give him a turn to some pursuit or other that might be service- able to him hereafter; but vv^hat...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 16 of Copy 1 8 was bom in Boston, in 1738, and went to England in 1776, where he knew Sharpies. Copley was self-educated, and before leav- ing for England painted Washington. Copley acquired fame, and...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 17 of Copy 1 clung with sucli fond affection. It certainly does seem that, with its disappearance from Mount Vernon, the poor maimed heirloom had ceased having any reverent guardian. This points to the conclusion that...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 18 of Copy 1 10 tlie Custis family ever made any application for the portrait to be returned to America, neither is there any evidence that Gary troubled himself about the money or sought to quit...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 19 of Copy 1 11 ing from the case, and has returned it in charge of a special messenger from the Legation. All endeavors to see Sharpies portrait of Kobert Fulton, or to ascertain its owner,...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 20 of Copy 1 12 short time she dwelt in obscurity, since which she has found a quiet, appreciative home in Sussex. A few years prior to Mr Gary s death, these paintings, second in historic...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 21 of Copy 1 13 bad always been under tbe belief tbat it was painted by Sbarples, and owned by tbe same family as possess tbe portraits of our first President and bis wife. Sucb is...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 22 of Copy 1 14 ROBERT GARY, THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THE SHARPLES PORTRAITS. Robert Gary, from whom all the portraits forming this priceless collection appear to have come down to his descend- ants of the...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 23 of Copy 1 15 eight weeks being in those days no uncommon length of the voyage either way— was out of the question; for, although Millais two thousand guineas fee for a single head had...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 24 of Copy 1 16 themselves of sucli to visit Mr. Gary, who up to the time of his death always felt a pleasure in showing the three portraits to any persons desirous, as he was...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 25 of Copy 1 17 goose-quill. In IS ew Orleans there were lialf-a-dozen old sol- dier firms, as they were characteristically nicknamed, and in Charleston several. Richmond, in Virginia, boasted of several of the new order;...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 26 of Copy 1 18 occasion no less a bulk than four huge earthen vessels, each of which is ordered to be wicker-bound, and recased in a cask, to guard against fracture and spilling the precious...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 27 of Copy 1 19 leaving that port for New York. If consigned to Messrs. Barclay, those gentlemen will give the little matter their unvarying care. Dental infirmity impels my caring for this necessary item in...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 28 of Copy 1 20 Lady Washington is made to avow her refusal to join in the request; she evidently desired that the English portraits should be real, and that no tricks should be played with...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 29 of Copy 1 21 sundry bottles of archaic whiskey. Sharpies noble portrait of Priestley was a product of like happy circumstances, attending the perpetviation of the godlike lineaments of Washington. But for Gary and Benjamin...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 30 of Copy 1 22 Mr. Sharpies is aware I was in Europe when his oils of the Washingtons were finished. I saw them first in company with the Hon., John Jay at Mr. Gary s,...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 31 of Copy 1 23 For myself, I had long despaired of his giving me another sitting. Had such been afforded I should have devoted it to studies for future hoped-for work, rather than any formal...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 32 of Copy 1 24 our people s great master-mind in the country s early infancy. But we need more, or future painters will be deficient in realistic work of reference. It is in hope of...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 33 of Copy 1 25 urge it with tlie force needed to induce Mr. Gary s consent; and, being yourself an artist, you will sympathize in our wish to have the duplicates. Stuart had not painted...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 34 of Copy 1 26 THE PROFILES OF GEORGE AIS D MARTHA WASH- IJSTGTON. These came out from England in 18SG, coupled with the fol- lowing announcement from the most eminent painters and sculptors In order...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 35 of Copy 1 27 who expressed great satisfaction in being afforded the oppor- tunity of seeing this vahiable picture. I thought it might be interesting to the possessors of this valuable picture to extract from...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 36 of Copy 1 28 ington, in common with my countrymen, and having the privi- lege, I approached near to liim, got by the side of him he put- ting his arm around my neck, embraced...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 37 of Copy 1 29 thority, and even before the plan of it had been turned in my mind. I am, dear sir, with high respect, Yonr obliged and humble servant, Washington Ikving. The poet Bryant...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 38 of Copy 1 30 than my efforts. Certainly he has made pictures out of Shar- pies sketches of American women of Washington s time re- markable for their beauty and grace. Maclise has been inter-...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 39 of Copy 1 31 f Mrs. Sharpies in that state. Romney or Bird finished the portrait of Fulton, Maclise that of his wife. Since their sale by Mrs. Sharpies, two individuals only have owned them;...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886
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Image 40 of Copy 1 32 Island Sound were paralyzed, although commanded by Nelson s favorite captain, and the crews kept in a continual state of alarm, through fear of his inventions. His experiments in the matter...- Contributor: Walter, James
- Date: 1886