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GEORGE WASHINGTON’S INDISPENSIBLE MAN Who was Will Lee? by James C. Thompson Biography/American History ISBN: 978-0-9854863-6-5 250 pages $25.00 Cloth Bound Original Commonwealth Books of Virginia December 1, 2014 www.commonwealthbooks.org

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GEORGE WASHINGTON’S INDISPENSIBLE MAN

Who was Will Lee?

by James C. Thompson

Biography/American History

ISBN: 978-0-9854863-6-5

250 pages

$25.00

Cloth Bound Original

Commonwealth Books of Virginia

December 1, 2014

www.commonwealthbooks.org

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George Washingtonby John Trumbull (1780 – 1781)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Detail: George Washingtonby John Trumbull (1780 – 1781)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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George Washingtonby John Trumbull (1780 – 1781)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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George Washingtonby Valentine Green after John Trumbull (1781)

New York Public Library

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Le Général Washingtonby Noël Le Mire after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1781)

Library of Congress

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Le Général Washingtonby Noël Le Mire after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1781)

Library of Congress

The whereabouts

of the 1779 Camp Portrait of

Le Général Washington

by Jean Baptiste le Paon

is not known

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(The Hancock) George Washingtonby Charles Willson Peale (1776)

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn,

New York

Le Général Washingtonby Jean Baptiste le Paon (1779 – 1780)

after C W Peale (1776)

Mount Vernon

This is one of La Paon copies of the copy

Peale made of his 1776 “Hancock Portrait”

of Washington. Lafayette bought Peale’s

copy in 1777 and brought it to France in

the winter of 1779.

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George Washingtonby Charles Willson Peale (1776)

Mount Vernon

Le Général Washingtonby Jean Baptiste le Paon (1779 – 1780)

after C W Peale (1776)

Mount Vernon

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George Washingtonby Charles Willson Peale (1776)

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn, New York

Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Le Général Washington

by Noël Le Mire (1781)

after Jean Baptiste le Paon

(1779)

Library of Congress

George Washingtonby Valentine Green (1781)

after John Trumbull (1780 - 81)New York Public Library

Le Général

Washingtonby Jean Baptiste le Paon

(1779 – 1780)

after C. W. Peale

(1776)

Mount Vernon

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Groom

Le Général Washington

by Noël Le Mire (1781)

after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1779 – 80)

Library of Congress

Groom

George Washingtonby Valentine Green (1781)

after John Trumbull (1780 = 81)New York Public Library

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Louis Philippe d'Orléans, as Duke of

Chartres

by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ca. 1779

Château de Chantilly

Groom

George Washingtonby Valentine Green (1781)

after John Trumbull (1780 = 81)New York Public Library

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Groom

Le Général Washington

by Noël Le Mire (1781)

after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1779 – 80)

Library of Congress

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Groom

George Washingtonby Valentine Green (1781)

after John Trumbull (1780 = 81)New York Public Library

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George Washingtonby Valentine Green after John Trumbull (1781)

New York Public Library

Le Général Washingtonby Noël Le Mire after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1781)

Library of Congress

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GEORGE WASHINGTON’S INDISPENSIBLE MAN

Who was Will Lee?

by James C. Thompson

Biography/American History

ISBN: 978-0-9854863-6-5

250 pages

$25.00

Cloth Bound Original

Commonwealth Books of Virginia

December 1, 2014

www.commonwealthbooks.org