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the president's steward Jean-Pierre Sioussat and Gardener Thomas McGrath saved the White House replica from being destroyed in the August 24, 1814, Burning of Washington, D.C. by the British.

In 2001, to preclude the original Lansdowne Portrait's imminent sale at auction by Sotheby's New York, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. purchased it for $20 million with donations

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