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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CFWM, post: 94660, member: 1335&quot;]If I may quote from &quot;George Washington:American Symbol&quot; pg. 84:&nbsp; &quot;The artist Hattie E. Burdette once again used the chair, hat, and pedestal in a portrait of Washington as Master of the Alexandria Lodge for the US George Washington Bicentennial Commission.&nbsp; NY Congressman Sol Bloom, director of this body, and a member of NY&#039;s Pacific Lodge No. 233, took pride in his agency&#039;s insistence on &quot;realism.&quot; In consultation with F. Walter Mueller, a member of Century Lodge No. 100 in South Orange, NJ, Bloom reviewed many Masonic portraits of Washington before rejecting them all as inaccurate.&nbsp; He then hired Burdette to recreate a portrait in which the figure was based upon Houdon&#039;s statue of Washington while the overall work incorporated the relics maintained by Alexandria-Washington Lodge #22.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The model for the portrait was Telf Johnson, a silent movie star.&nbsp; More than 1500 of these copies were distributed by Congressmen to Masonic lodges throughout the United States and may be seen still today in many Masonic lodges.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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