LEWESTOWN
A RARE PAINTING
BY
DANIEL RODNEY KING
1844
In 1844, a young Lewes
artist , Daniel Rodney King, a descendant of Caesar
Rodney, painted a
picture of “Lewestowne” from the banks of the Hoornekill
Creek,
a view of schooners at
anchor and qaint hip roof dwellings of days gone by.
Later, the famous
Delaware artist, Stanley Arthurs, at the request of A. Felix
duPont, of Rehoboth Beach
, painted a facsimile, which was presented to Lewes by
duPont this past week.
Mr. duPont had acquired the original , the only one in existence,
and had Arthures reproduce
the painting in it's original colors.
The Arthurs' reproduction
was sent to Captain Harry Lyons, who was the
chairman of the Lewes
Tercentenary Commission, with the suggestion that it be placed
in the Zwaanendael House
as a permanent relic.
Source: Salisbury Daily
Times, Salisbury, Maryland, Saturday, January 6, 1940.
Abstract: March 7, 2018
by Harrison H, for www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com and John
Hurlocks facebook page,
memories Lewes to Ocean City.
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