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Institute, and soon thereafter it was removed to and became 
a part of the museum of that society in the building of the 
Patent Office. It was valued by Varden at $1,500, but there is 
no evidence that he was paid for it, the employment of its 
owner having probably been accepted as a satisfactory equiva- 
lent. In Varden’s catalogue thirty-two art objects are cited by 
titles and some others are referred to, but among them all, with 
possibly one or two exceptions, none seems to have had any 
special artistic merit. Out of seven oil paintings enumerated 
only the three mentioned below are now identifiable. They 
were entitled as follows in the catalogue of the Institute: 
Massacre of the Innocents, Turkish Battle Piece, and Portrait 
of Cardinal Mazarin. There were also recorded busts in plaster 
of Washington, Franklin, and John Quincy Adams; and 
numerous prints, including three engravings attributed to Albert 
Diirer. 
ANNOTATED LIST OF ART OBJECTS IN THE MUSEUM 
OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE 
Portraits 
FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON. By Charles Willson 
Beale. 
According to Mr. Charles Henry Hart, who has given much 
attention to the subject,® the original of this portrait, painted 
for the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, from 
sittings in Philadelphia in the first part of 1778, is in the pos- 
session of Mr. Thomas McKean, at Fernhill, Germantown, 
Pennsylvania. The canvas here listed is described by Mr. 
Hart as one of many repetitions painted by Peale in 1779, 
which date it bears, as well as the signature of the artist. Its 
early history has never been satisfactorily explained, but it 
was evidently sent to Europe to be sold, probably in the same 
year that it was painted. It was brought back to this country 
from France by Julius, Count de Menou, from whom it was 
purchased, in October, 1841, by Mr. Charles B. Calvert, of 
a Peak’s Original Whole-length Portrait of Washington — A Plea for 
Exactness in Historical Writings. Annual Report of the American Histor- 
ical Association for 1896, pp. 19 1-200. 
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