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"webster's Portrait

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
September
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Daniel Webster once sat for his portrait to the late G. P. Healy, and the seuator's remark wheu he surveyed the completed picture became one of the artist's favorite anecdotes in after years. "I think, " said Webster as he looked at his counterfeit presentment, "that is a face I have of ten shaved. " Healy found Audrew Jacksou a disagreeable aud unwilling "subject," and he corupensated hiniself by painting Oíd Hickory with absolute fidelity to nature, not glossing a single defeot. The portrait gives Jackson an ugly, savage and pal lid

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News