Charles Willson Peale painted this portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette while the Frenchman was in his early 20s and serving as a general in the Continental Army. Wikimedia Commons ...

Charles Wilson Peale's portrait of Marquis de Lafayette, 1779. PROVIDED PHOTO A Charles Willson Peale portrait of Lafayette on loan from Washington and Lee University.

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette is better known by his title. The Marquis de Lafayette ... in 1779, from Charles Willson Peale. Peale had painted Washington, and ...

The Marquis ... sight from Lafayette’s quarters in the Cabildo. “It’s just amazing to imagine how this thing towered over the city,” Maklansky said. A Charles Willson Peale portrait ...

A portrait of George Washington that experts say has been confirmed as the work of Charles Willson Peale. It depicts him after the Battle at Princeton.