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