Editing Ethan Allen (section)

== Likenesses ==
[[File:Statue of Ethan Allen by Larkin Goldsmith Mead.jpg|thumb|upright|Sculpture of Allen by [[Larkin Goldsmith Mead]]]]
No likenesses of Allen made from life have been found, in spite of numerous attempts to locate them. Efforts by members of the Vermont Historical Society and other historical groups through the years have followed up on rumored likenesses, only to come up empty. Photographs of Allen's grandson, General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, are extant, and, Hitchcock's mother said that he bore a strong resemblance to her father.<ref name="Holbrook264">[[#Holbrook|Holbrook]], p. 264</ref> The nearest potential images included one claimed to be by noted Revolutionary War era engraver [[Pierre Eugene du Simitiere]] that turned out to be a forgery, and a reference to a portrait possibly by [[Ralph Earl]] that has not been found (as of Stewart Holbrook's writing in 1940).<ref name="Holbrook262_3">[[#Holbrook|Holbrook]], pp. 262–263</ref> [[Alexander Graydon]], with whom Allen was paroled during his captivity in New York, described him like this:

<blockquote>His figure was that of a robust, large-framed man, worn down by confinement and hard fare; but he was now recovering his flesh and spirits; and a suit of blue clothes, with a gold laced hat that had been presented to him by the gentlement of Cork, enabled him to make a very passable appearance for a rebel colonel&nbsp;... I have seldom met with a man, possessing, in my opinion, a stronger mind, or whose mode of expression was more vehement and oratorical.  Notwithstanding that Allen might have had something of the insubordinate, lawless frontier spirit in his composition&nbsp;... he appeared to me to be a man of generosity and honor.<ref name="Jellison171">[[#Jellison|Jellison]], p. 171</ref></blockquote>