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.
In 1819, Peale (whose son Raphaelle had painted Absalom Jones in 1810) went to Washington to record the likenesses of distinguished Americans; while there he heard about an old African man ...