“The public image is of the older George Washington, not the young Virginia provincial.” The oil on canvas, circa 1820-50 by Rembrandt Peale, is formally titled, “George Washington Copied ...

Last year, Washington College hired Carol Soltis, a Peale expert, to evaluate the painting. "In my opinion, the portrait of 'George Washington as Master Mason' . . . is not a work by Rembrandt ...

Rembrandt Peale was 23 and already an accomplished artist. Before he was 10, he had stood behind his father's chair while the elder Peale painted portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

WASHINGTON (AP) They were named Rembrandt, Rubens ... to more than 1,000 portraits and a long family line, the prolific Peale also may have created a set of false teeth for George Washington to wear ...