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"Independence"
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A copy of a painting of a man sitting on a porch, entitled "Independence" by Frank Blackwell Mayer (1827-1899), a prominent 19th century American genre painter. The painting is from the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.
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