American School, late 19th c., "General George Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, New York", 1893, oil on canvas, 18 in. x 24 in., framed. E3000-5000 Provenance: Former collections of R. Allison; and Gary and Martha Ludlow, American Antiques, Lyndhurst, OH. Note: This appealingly na‹ve view of the Hasbrouck House, which Washington rented as his headquarters from April 1782 to August 1783, appears to be based primarily on an engraving by Joseph Andrews (1805-1873), after a drawing made on the site by John Ludlow Morton (1792-1871), that appeared in the first edition of Jared Sparks's Life of Washington, published in 1837. This considerably later painted version is twice inscribed "93"in ink, on the stretcher; the fact that those numerals represent the picture's date of production in 1893 is confirmed by the special metal stretcher-clamps, which display cast-in patent registrations of 1883 and 1885. Jonathan Hasbrouck (1722-1780) and his wife Tryntje built this house in 1750, and added a row of rooms on the west (here the right) side, twenty years later. This traditional view southward down the Hudson River shows the north wall, with the single window of Washington's study (adjoining his bedroom) on the ground floor at left; to its right are the double windows of the parlor added in 1770. The west wall of that extension, with its single hall door and two kitchen and office windows, is rendered more accurately here than in any other well-known view. We are grateful to Melvin Johnson, Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site Assistant, for his generous help in cataloguing this lot.