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Title: The New York genealogical and biographical record
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Greene, Richard Henry, 1839-1926 Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909 Dwight, Melatiah Everett Morrison, George Austin, 1864-1916 Mott, Hopper Striker, 1854-1924 Totten, John Reynolds, 1856-1936 Pitman, H. Minot (Harold Minot), 1888- Ditmas, Charles Andrew, 1887-1938 De Forest, Louis Effingham, 1891- Mann, Conklin Maynard, Arthur S New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
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Publisher: New York, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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possession of the writer. • AN INQUIRY INTO THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE PORTRAIT OF MARY BALL, THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON. By Charles Henry Hart. As men are supposed to inherit their most dominant and sterl-ing qualities from the mother, there is always an unquenchabledesire to look upon the face of her who has given to the world anotable man among men and to learn of the personal characteristicsof that woman who has thus endowed her son. If this is a com-mon desire toward those who have made a place for themselvesin the history of the world, how much keener is the feeling whenthat woman stands before the world as the Mother of GeorgeWashington, the mere mention of whose name brings the glow ofpatriotism to the cheek of every American and to whom the wholeearth bows in awe, reverence and admiration. Yet, until this year,when an even century and a quarter closes around her grave, wehave had no authenticated portrait of Mary Ball, the wife ofAugustine Washington, to which to do this homage.
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MARY BALL WASHINGTON 1918.) The Mother of Washington. I c I On April 5th, 1914, Mr. W. Lanier Washington, of New YorkCity, who is sixth in descent from Mary Ball Washington and thepresent representative of the Washington family, as also the suc-cessor of Washington in the Society of the Cincinnati, submittedto me a portrait of an aged woman, full face to left, with frilledcap, painted on coarse canvas, 18 x 21 inches, for my opinion as toits authorship and subject. After having the picture in my pos-session for a fortnight, during which time I gave it constant andcareful study, I returned it with my unqualified opinion that it isa veritable authentic portrait of Mary Ball Washington, paintedfrom life, in 1786, by Robert Edge Pine and for the followingreasons. The authorship of the painting was perfectly clear to me from thefirst, from my study and familiarity with the work of Robert EdgePine, who was a British painter, born in 1730, and removed to thiscountry in 1784, settling in Phil

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