{"id":243,"date":"2009-05-05T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2009-05-06T18:08:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T23:08:48","slug":"portraits-by-maria-howard-weeden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/portraits-by-maria-howard-weeden\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits by [Maria] Howard Weeden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-281\" title=\"wessyngton-portraits\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wessyngton-portraits-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"wessyngton-portraits\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wessyngton-portraits-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wessyngton-portraits.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 1890s the Washington family contracted the famous artist [Maria] Howard Weeden to paint portraits of several\u00a0African Americans.\u00a0 These portraits hung in the plantation mansion.\u00a0 In this photograph Preston Frazer, a Washington descendant, is seen with the portraits.\u00a0 The portraits remain in the Washington family.<\/p>\n<p>Would you share a\u00a0photo of\u00a0\u00a0a portrait of your ancestors\u00a0with others?\u00a0 Please send\u00a0a photo to me with a short e-mail telling me about it.\u00a0 Also please let me know if I could post\u00a0the photo and the information\u00a0on my blog.\u00a0 I would not\u00a0post your name or e-mail address. Thank you. <a href=\"mailto:john@johnbakerbooks.com\">john@johnbakerbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1890s the Washington family contracted the famous artist [Maria] Howard Weeden to paint portraits of several\u00a0African Americans.\u00a0 These portraits hung in the plantation mansion.\u00a0 In this photograph Preston Frazer, a Washington descendant, is seen with the portraits.\u00a0 The portraits remain in the Washington family. Would you share a\u00a0photo of\u00a0\u00a0a portrait of your ancestors\u00a0with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,13,21,18,20,22,1],"tags":[10,115,101,116,118,113,45,114,8,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}