People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — She Sot For Victoria's Figure. [ARTICLE]

She Sot For Victoria's Figure.

There is an old lady lying in the Pennsylvania hospital with a broken leg who once sat for the figure of a life size painting of Queen Victoria. She is Miss Blanche Sully, and her father was Thomas Sully, in his time a famous painter of portraits. In 1887 he went to England with a commission from the St. George society to paint the portrait of young Queen Victoria. He took his daughter with him, and as she was very nearly of the same stature as the queen she sat for the figure in her father’s picture of Victoria, thus saving the latter the annoyance of long sittings. During the sittings Miss Sully beoame quite intimate with her majesty and brought back with her to this country many delightful memories of her royal friend.— Philadelphia Record.