it's basically just the athenaeum head plopped on a body.ber of copies, depending on what the commissioning patron wanted. if he wanted a certain book on the table, if he wanted a certain background between the drapes and so on. it was a very lucrative deal for gilbert stuart. it was painted for the bing hams, a fabulously wealthy family, for landsdown, who was very amenable to the american cause during the revolutionary war. i won't tell you where there is another one of these in washington, dc, i won't tell you where it is, we can talk about that later if you want. these are all private portraits that are done by very well-paying patrons. because it costs a lot of money to do a portrait. but regular people wanted to see what george washington looked like as well. so you found images of george washington on all kinds of articles for public consumption. this is a scarf that shows purportedly george washington, but you can tell as well as i can, this is just a guy on a horse in a tricorn hat. what's interesting is the saying around it. it doe

i mentioned the athenaeum is there, both of george and martha. the landsdown is there. i don't know what other ones are there. i suspect they have quite a few. but no, i couldn't tell you. you're reminding me i need to go back. >> what about the portrait gallery? >> i'm sorry, the portrait gallery. sir? >> you mentioned that gilbert stuart used this one painting as a model for others. how long would it have taken him to crank out another one of these, the turnaround time to sell it? >> of course our friend in the senate curator's office just left. she would have been ideally suited to answer that question. i don't know how long it took to turn around. i know that in the period, the thing that the master really had to take care of was the face and the hands. everything else was covered by clothing. you would get other people in your studio who were studying under you to do those. so you could turn them around fairly quickly. in other words, the master isn't responsible for everything you see on the canvas. i don't know how quick they spit them out, but there were 75 athe