George Washington
Datec. 1825-1830
Artist
Rembrandt Peale
(American painter, 1778–1860)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions29 × 23 1/2 in. (73.7 × 59.7 cm)
frame: 34 3/4 x 29 in. (88.3 x 73.7 cm)
frame: 34 3/4 x 29 in. (88.3 x 73.7 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Dr. Joseph P. Pyle, 1919
Object number1919-1
On View
On viewCollections
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn the early 1800s, American artists painted dozens of portraits of George Washington. He was a celebrity and everyone wanted his picture. Washington posed for portraits by Philadelphia painter Charles Willson Peale. His sons sat in on one posing session, and later made dozens of Washington portraits, copying his own work and his father's finished portraits.
William Thomas Smedley
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