It is a perpetual sermon to those that would thresh around to no avail, be they orators, melodramatists, or makers of photoplays with an alleged heart-interest.
Let us consider Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Washington.

This painter's notion of personal dignity has far more of the intellectual quality than Van Dyck.

He loves to give us stately, able, fairly conscientious gentry, rather than overdone royalty.

His work represents a certain mood in design that in architecture is called colonial.

Such portraits go with houses like Mount Vernon.