Oil on canvas (lined), 1867, signed and dated at lower right, sitter identified by nameplate affixed at lower center of frame, presented in an ornate period giltwood frame.

Stretcher size 24 1/2 x 20 in.; Frame dimensions 33 1/2 x 29 3/8 in.

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Historic Brokett's Row, Alexandria, Virginia.

Edward Darlington was a three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from the Anti-Masonic Party.

Pennsylvania-born artist Samuel Waugh became one of the most well-known portrait painters of Philadelphia. Among his subjects were Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. Waugh received some early art instruction from J.R. Smith in Philadelphia, and then went to Italy, France, and England to study the Old Masters. He settled in Philadelphia and remained there for the majority of the rest of his life.

In 1845, he was voted an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design in New York and in 1847 was made an Honorary Member. His work was exhibited in the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and the National Academy.

Painting has been lined and professionally restored, with retouching visible under UV light inspection.