George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, antiquarian, author, and playwright. His father John Parke Custis was a stepson of George Washington. He and his sister Eleanor grew up at Mount Vernon and in the Washington presidential household.
John Parke Custis, c. 1774, by Charles Willson Peale
Eleanor Calvert, c. 1780, possibly by John Ramage
Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art "The Washington Family" by Edward Savage, painted between 1789 and 1796, shows (from left to right): George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Nelly Custis, Martha Washington, and an enslaved servant (probably William Lee or Christopher Sheels).
Mary Anna Custis Lee
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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee was the wife of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the last private owner of Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington. Lee was a highly educated woman, who edited and published her father's writings after his death.
Portrait of Mary Anna Custis by Auguste Hervieu (1830)
East front of Custis Lee Mansion with Union Soldiers on lawn
Engraving of Mary Anna Custis Lee, 1854