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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beck, Paul]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Paul Beck, Jr. (1760-1844), was a distinguished Philadelphia merchant and philanthropist.  Appointed to the post of Port Warden, Beck helped to improved the city&#039;s shipping facilities and was instrumental in building a canal to connect the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays.  Among the many charitable institutions served by Beck was the Ludwick Institute, founded in 1801 as a free school for poor children.  For many years its vice president, Beck bequeathed to it a property at 6th and Catharine Streets.  In 1859 the Institute removed to that site (which became known as the Beck School House) and soon after it commissioned this portrait.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Executed by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) in 1860, this portrait was copied from an earlier one he had painted in 1813.  An Athenaeum shareholder from 1818 to 1822, Sully was Philadelphia&#039;s leading portraitist.  His canvases show a fine use of colors and textures, as well as an attention to detail.  In this example he has included a biographical accessory, the gold snuff box given to Beck in 1812 by Major William Jackson (1759-1828), once personal secretary to George Washington.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Ludwick Institute has long met at the Athenaeum and a majority of its managers are usually also directors of the Athenaeum.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sully, Thomas]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1860 (From an 1813 Portrait)]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[General Collection, Museum Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[29&quot; x 35.75&quot;]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Oil on canvas]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[1959.06.01]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Donated to the Athenaeum by the Ludwick Institute in 1959.]]></dcterms:provenance>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bird, Eleanor Blaney]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleanor Blaney Bird (1806-1888) was the wife of Henry Bird (1803-1864) sixth Librarian of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sully, Thomas (attributed)]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1830 (circa)]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[General Collection, Museum Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[24.5&quot; x 29.5&quot;]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Oil on canvas; gilt frame]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[2002.M02.02]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Gift of Eleanor Bird Light.]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.philaathenaeum.org/collections/items/show/2239">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bird, Henry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Henry Bird (1803-1864), served as Secretary and sixth Librarian of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia from 1859 until his death in 1864. He was the husband of Eleanor Blaney Bird (1806-1888).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sully, Thomas (attributed)]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1830 (circa)]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[General Collection, Museum Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[24.5&quot; x 29.5&quot;]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Oil on canvas; gilt frame]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[2002.M02.01]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Gift of Eleanor Bird Light.]]></dcterms:provenance>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Leaming, Lydia (1789-1869)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lydia Leaming, the daughter of Thomas Leaming and Rebecca Fisher, was born in Philadelphia in 1789. In 1806, Lydia’s mother commissioned artist Thomas Sully to paint a portrait of her 17 year old daughter.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sully, Thomas]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1806]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[General Collection, Museum Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[29&quot; x 34&quot;]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Oil on canvas; gilt frame]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[2011.36.01]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Gift of Lydia Smith Thomson.]]></dcterms:provenance>
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