George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 6 April 1790]

Tuesday 6th. Sat for Mr. Savage, at the request of the Vice-President, to have my Portrait drawn for him.

The Company at the Levee to day was thin. The day was bad.

The portrait for which GW sat today was painted by Edward Savage for John Adams and hung by the Adamses in their home in Quincy, Mass. (see EISEN description begins Gustavus A. Eisen. Portraits of Washington. 3 vols. New York, 1932. description ends , 2:458).

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    [Diary entry: 6 April 1790]
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    Washington, George
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    6 April 1790

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    “[Diary entry: 6 April 1790],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0001-0004-0006. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 57.]