several were done by howard chandler christy, a famous painter in the 1920's and 1930's. he is most famous for these big pictures of the signing of the constitution, which hangs in the house between the first floor and the second floor. this magnificent, huge painting. he did several portraits including rainy, and when other speaker. there are some famous portrait painters who have done some of these. others are less known as portrait painters, perhaps as artists. i like the one of denny hastert. i think it captures him. it is one of the more recent ones. he has the mace of the house in his picture. and the silver inkstand. i find i have a fondness for that inkstand. it had to be repaired. don anderson and i had to have coin silver. we took some old, worn down coin silver's when they had silver content close to the silver that was used. every time i see a portrait, or see that inkstand, i feel a nice connection to it. it is in his portrait. >> thank you very much. >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation like

several of them were done by howard chandler christy, who was a painter in the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's. his most famous picture was of the signing of the constitution, which hangs in the house between the first and second floor. it is magnificent, a huge painting. he did several of the portraits, including brady, and what other speaker, i can't remember. there are some famous portrait painters who have done some of these. others are simply less known as portrait painters, perhaps his artist. he also has a silver inkstand. i have a particular fondness for that inkstand because it had to be repaired. the clerk and i had to come up with some coin silver. we took some old, worn down silver coins, which was close to the silver that was used. every time i see a portrait or a picture or see that inkstand, i feel a nice connection to it.

several were done by howard chandler christy, a famous painter in the 1920's and 1930's. he is most famous for these big pictures of the signing of the constitution, which hangs in the house between the first floor and the second floor. this magnificent, huge painting. he did several portraits including rainy and when other speaker. there are some famous portrait painters who have done some of these. others are less known as portrait painters, perhaps as artists. i like the one of denny hastert. i think it captures him. it is one of the more recent ones. he has the mace of the house in his picture. and the silver inkstand. i find i have a fondness for that inkstand. it had to be repaired. don anderson and i had to have coin silver. we took some old, worn down coin silver's when they had silver content close to the silver that was used. every time i see a portrait, or see that inkstand, i feel a nice connection to it. it is in his portrait. >> thank you very much. >> you are watching american history television, 48 hours of american history. follow us on twitter for inform