john ward dunsmore, washington's last birthday, 1799. washington saying goodbye to his niece who had been living with his adopted step-granddaughter who had been living with them, married off to his nephew. this is the couple that moved into woodlawn down route 1 from mt. vernon today. a genre scene by john ward dunsmore. i include this one partly because it shows george washington. it's a genre scene because it shows washington not in the magisterial sense of establishing washington, kind of like what we saw with the edward savage, but it shows him in the messy tasks of telling surveyors where to go, and the bureaucrats, the commissioners in the background. this is also in washington, dc, this is in the collection of george washington university. it was done in 1931 as a master's thesis by a student there. this is my favorite. look at it carefully. it's jean leon, paris, stuart's studio, painted circa 1920, paris's homage to gilbert stuart. it's a picture of a painter painting a picture. it doesn't get more behind the scenes than that.

a genre scene by john ward dunsmore. i include this one partly because it shows george washington. it is a genre scene because it shows washington not in a magisterial sense of establishing washington like with the edward savage, but in the messy task of telling surveyors were to go andy bureaucrats in the background and this is also in washington, d.c. in the collection of the washington university. it was done in 1931 as a masters is bys by -- master's thes a student there. this is my favorite. look at it carefully. stuart's studio painted circa 1920. it is an homage to gilbert stuart. it is a picture of a painter painting a picture. it does not get more behind the scenes than that. i talked about howard pyle, the great illustrator of the genre style. nc wyeth was probably his most famous student. this is george washington crossing the delaware the -- river at trenton where he is received to be inaugurated in 1789. it was painted in 1930. why is this a genre painting? he's doing something historical, but it is not about washington, is it? if you look closely you would see the mos