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Prince George County, Maryland, for the sum of $200. The 

 latter placed it with the National Institute in Washington, and 

 in 1862 it was turned over to the Smithsonian Institution. 

 It was sent to Philadelphia in 1876 for exhibition in connection 

 with the Centennial Exhibition and remained at the Pennsyl- 

 vania Academy of Fine Arts until 1881, when it was recalled 

 to the Smithsonian and lent to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 

 A claim to ownership of the picture by Titian R. Peale, a son 

 of Charles Willson Peale, was decided adversely by the Board 

 of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution in 1873, on the ground 

 that sufficient proof had not been presented, but in 1882 Con- 

 gress appropriated $5,000 in settlement of the claim, and the 

 portrait was transferred to the Capitol, where it now hangs. 



PORTRAIT OF F. P. G. GUIZOT. By George P. A. Healy. 



The records of the National Institute describe this painting 

 as a full-length portrait of Guizot, the celebrated author and 

 minister of Louis Philippe, presented by the American citizens 

 residing in Paris. It was intended as a memorial of their grati- 

 tude to the distinguished historian of the great progress of civi- 

 lization, for his French translation of the life and writings of 

 Washington. The subscribers to the portrait desired that it be 

 placed in one of the public edifices in the Capital of the United 

 States, where it could be seen by the largest number of its peo- 

 ple. It cost about 2,000 francs, each subscription being limited 

 to 50 francs. It was brought to this country by Captain Franck, 

 of the ship Oneida, who declined to receive any compensation 

 for freight and other charges. 



The portrait was turned over to the National Institute by the 



President of the United States, whose letter and the letter of 



acceptance are as follows : 



Washington, June 21, 1842. 



Sir: A full length Portrait of Men. Guizot, Prime Minister of France 

 and Biographer of George Washington, executed by Mr. Healy, an Ameri- 

 can artist, upon subscription of certain American citizens resident in Paris, 

 has been consigned to my care with a request that I would give it a place 

 in some one of the public buildings of this Capital. 



After full consideration of the best disposition to be made of it, as well in 

 honor of the distinguished statesman and man of letters, whose person 

 and features it is said most accurately to delineate, as fully to meet the 

 wishes of the citizens who have made me its repository, I have concluded to 

 tender it, through you, to the National Institute. 



