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Painter: Samuel Bell Waugh (1814–1885), after Joseph Wright
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English: Copy of Joseph Wright's 1790 portrait of Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg. Muhlenberg served as the first Speaker of the U.S. House Representatives.
Waugh painted this copy 80 years after Muhlenberg's death. Note that Waugh changed background and the color of the chair's upholstery.
Date 1881
date QS:P571,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
Source/Photographer U.S. House of Representatives website[1]
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Other versions Joseph Wright's 1790 Portrait of Frederick Muhlenberg is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

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current00:06, 22 December 2014Thumbnail for version as of 00:06, 22 December 2014885 × 1,184 (130 KB)Americus55 (talk | contribs)Larger version
01:24, 4 November 2006Thumbnail for version as of 01:24, 4 November 2006200 × 248 (28 KB)Darth Kalwejt (talk | contribs)Frederick A. C. Muhlenbers from the U.S. House of Representatives web site

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