People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Washington Belles. [ARTICLE]

Washington Belles.

The ancient Black Horse inn in Delaware county, about sixteen miles from this city, contains a couple of notable relics that were highly prized by Col. Lines, the genial and widely esteemed proprietor who died recently. One is an autograph letter of Washington’s, presented by a citizen of Fairfax, Va., to the colonel when he was on duty there as a union officer in 1862. The other is a bust portrait of Washington, painted by Gilbert Stuart, a replica of the celebrated portrait in the Boston athenaeum. Aside from apparent evidences of Stuart’s style, the pedigree of the picture is perfect, having been handed down in the family of Mrs. Lines from an ancestor, a once prominent merchant of this city, for whom Stuart painted it. The portrait is painted on bed ticking instead of canvas, the latter having been rendered extremely scarce at the time it was painted, by reason of the British embargo on American commerce.—Philadelphia Record.