People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1896 — She Sat For Victoria’s Figure. [ARTICLE]

She Sat 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 Qneen Victoria. She is Miss Blanche Sully, and her father was Thomas Sully, in his time a famons 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 statare as the qneen she ,sat for the figure in her father’s pio j tore of Victoria, thus saving the latter the annoyance of long sittings. During the sittings Miss Sully became quite intimate with her majesty and brought back with her to this country many delightful memories of her royal friend.— Philadelphia Record.