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337:. It is thought Dury painted the portrait from a sculpture that he had made of Lee. The Lee portrait is in a private collection in Virginia. A smaller copy painted by Dury hangs in Lee's historic home "
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became Dury's patron, hiring the artist as court painter. He charged Dury to paint Ludwig I's Irish-born mistress Eliza
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Dury completed another portrait of Sarah
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