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2 o                                Morris H. Saffron

The version at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
lacks the fineness of detail of the Columbia portrait and the body
is shorter. Formerly attributed to Ellen Sharpies by Katharine
McCook Knox, the authority on the Sharpies family and author
 

Pastel drawing bv James Sharpies, Sr., ot John Baid,

first president of the New York Medical Society.

(.Mrs. J.G. Phelps Stokes gift)

of The Sharpies (1930), Mrs. Knox now attributes it to James, Sr.
This picture also has an excellent provenance having descended
in the Livingston family of Long Island. Mrs. Knox describes the
picture at Independence Hall, Philadelphia as "not exclusively by
James, Sr." The versions at both New York Hospital and Bard
College, Annandale-on-Hudson, are copies by unknown hands.
The story of the Bard family in America begins with the revo-
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