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THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
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 Pine 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 Mon. 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. 
