George Alexis Weymouth
He served on the United States Commission of Fine Arts in the 1970s and was a member of the Du Pont family.
Frolic was six generations removed from Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of the DuPont corporation.
[6] He resided in a converted 17th-century Swedish trading post with an 18th-century addition on 250 acres (100 ha) called "Big Bend" (a translation of an Indian name for the land) in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, that he purchased in 1961.
[8] Other sources point to the land of Big Bend being the site of a Lenape village known as Queonemysing (place of the long fish).
His portrait of his grandfather, Eugene du Pont, Jr., features the detail of a herringbone suit coat and the worn fabric of a favorite recliner.
His The Way Back (1963) is a self-portrait of only his hands guiding a single horse carriage up the lane to Big Bend.
Weymouth painted portraits of Luciano Pavarotti (1982) and of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1995), Queen Elizabeth’s husband, a work which hangs in Windsor Castle.
[6] Weymouth was the confidant who discreetly hid Andrew Wyeth's nudes of Prussian-born neighbor and caretaker Helga Testorf for 17 years before they became public.
[12] In a conversation about Andy Warhol, Jamie Wyeth expressed the opinion that Frolic Weymouth was the "real character.
Elsewhere, a carved wooden Indonesian fertility bench features two interlocked monkeys, highlighting Weymouth's admitted fascination with fornication.
du Pont and William Prickett to help him buy two parcels in Chadds Ford, along the banks of the Brandywine Creek which had been proposed for industrial development.
His home, "The Big Bend," surrounded by Brandywine Creek on three sides, is just inside Pennsylvania at the northern Delaware border.
The period-furnished 1750s stone house addition to the original 1650s Swedish log cabin is surrounded by gardens.
Rumored buyers included a nuclear power plant, Disney, and a real estate developer.
The Brandywine River Museum opened in the building in 1971 after the mill was renovated, including the addition of soaring, glass-walled lobbies on three floors.
