Portraits Bring Lees' Past to Life

The Washington Post | June 10, 1996| | Copyright

After almost a century, the Thomas Sully portraits of Elizabeth Blair Lee and her husband, Rear Adm. Samuel Phillips Lee, are home again. The paintings give faces to the past of the president's guest house.

On his presentation of the portraits to Blair House not long ago, J. Wayne Lee, a Philadelphia Realtor, introduced his forebears by walking over to the demurely beautiful Elizabeth and pointing to a spot on her throat. "It's been touched up," he said, "but the family story goes that a lady friend of the admiral's stuck her hatpin in the painting, just there."

J. Wayne Lee, his ...

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