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When Miss Dorothy Payne gave the portrait of “Alexander Spottswood Payne and his brother John Robert Dandridge Payne, with their Nurse” to the Virgflfti# Museum of Fine Arts in 1953, It had been rolled up and stored in an attic forbears and was very much darkened and damaged by age. The Museum sent it to erne of the best restorers in the country and the handsome and important painting reproduced above began to emerge from the long and painstaking process of cleaning.
ITte elder of the two Payne boys, Alexander Spottswood, was born on October 20, 1780, the son of Archer and Martha Dandridge Payne of “New Market” in Goochland. Co. Thus it is possible to date the painting at about 1790, for Alexander Spottswood is ceri
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