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Anthony J. Drexel (1826-1893) was the founder of Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry. He was not a self-promoter and was notorious for not wanting his portrait done and in many of our portraits he looks somewhat uncomfortable. He was persuaded by his lifelong friend and businessman George W. Childs to do this painting, but it could not be hung after his death. This painting painted by the French artist Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) is now hanging in the Paul Peck Alumni Center.