it included Martha Custis Washington, the wealthy widow whom Washington had married 30 years earlier, and her two Custis grandchildren. In the life-size painting that Savage completed in 1796 ...

click image for close-up George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were wed in January of 1759. Both were twenty-seven years old, and they had spent a total of fewer than three weeks together.

Now, The Martha Washington Inn & Spa is an extravagant retreat in Abingdon, Virginia, near the Virginia-Tennessee state line. And recent guests describe it as elegant enough to pull off its pricey ...