In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) They were named Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphael and Titian but they weren’t European artists — they belonged to a dynasty of American painters descended from Charles Willson ... Peale also ...

The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously been the subject of mismanaged restoration attempts. Now, experts in Versailles are bringing it back in line with the artist's ...

A magnificent portrait of the George Washington that usually hangs ... was “attributed” to the American painter Charles Willson Peale but widely believed to be a copy until the artwork was ...

The Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France has been commissioned to restore the 1779 painting from the ...

click image for close-up Although he was known primarily as a portraitist, Charles Willson Peale's The Accident on Lombard Street provides an example of how Peale used his work to make statements ...