In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an ...
Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.
127.32 x 101.6 cm. (50.1 x 40 in.) ...
The image of Peale, who was considered the artist of the American Revolution because of his scores of portraits of major figures of the Revolution, including George Washington, is among dozens of ...
For 40 years, a large full-length painting of George Washington (1732-1799), the first president of the United States, at the end of the Battle of Princeton (1777), had been welcoming guests to the ...
In addition to more than 1,000 portraits and a long family line, the prolific Peale also may have created a set of false teeth for George Washington to wear while sitting for portraits. No one knows ...
The Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France has been commissioned to restore the 1779 painting from the ...
Like most males then and since, George Washington did his ... In later years the two men’s friendship ripened. Washington sat seven times for portraits; Peale in turn made a set of false teeth ...
Painter of the American Revolution Peale is known as the painter of the American Revolution because of his many portraits of George Washington and other major figures. He was also a natural historian.