BlogBack: Rob Krulak on the Steinhardt Stuart

Rob Krulak, a development officer at the Brooklyn Museum, replies to New York Public Library Sells Its Washington:
Regardless of how the Steinhardts ultimately dispose of the portrait of Washington that they purchased from the New York Public Library, New Yorkers should remember that there is an equally lovely, and nearly identical painting by the same artist accessible to all in the esteemed permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
The Brooklyn picture shows George as an orator, with his hand outstretched; the NYPL shows him in a nearly identical pose and setting, but with his hand resting on some documents on the table.