The Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France has been commissioned to restore the 1779 painting from the US embassy to its original glory.

Charles Willson Peale was not just a painter; he was also a soldier, politician, and educator. His life and work offer us a vivid snapshot of Revolutionary America and its heroes. House Democrats ...

Star of the show will be gentle Charles himself, yet painting was only one of his talents. Two hundred and one years ago, when Peale was twelve, his indigent mother apprenticed him to an Annapolis ...

At the time, the Washington portrait was “attributed” to the American painter Charles Willson Peale but widely believed to be a copy until the artwork was cleaned in 2015. A technical analysis ...

This time, however, she alerted The Inquirer to the misspelling. Painter of the American Revolution Peale is known as the painter of the American Revolution because of his many portraits of George ...

In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an American victory over the British at the 1777 Battle of Princeton.

A forgotten portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Rembrandt Peale, American painter of Revolutionary days, was discovered by Americans in the collection of Lord Lee of Fareham, former First Lord of the ...

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Washington at Princeton, Charles Willson Peale, 1779 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting ...