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By Ralph Blumenthal For years there had been skepticism about the large portrait of George Washington that has long hung in the baronial Paris residence of the U.S. ambassador to France.
The story of First Lady Dolley Madison heroically saving a portrait of George Washington as she was being exiled from the White House during the War of 1812 has been circulated for centuries.
A rare lifetime depiction of George Washington from 1795 that was ... The auction includes another Washington portrait, a painting by Rembrandt Peale that is expected to sell for between US$ ...
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.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is partnering with local law enforcement to track down the painting and are asking for the public’s help in finding the stolen portrait of George Washington.
A magnificent portrait of the George Washington that usually hangs in the U.S. embassy in Paris has headed to Versailles for some much-needed TLC. This involves the painstaking removal of some ...
The painting, according to police, was created in the early 1800s and depicts a portrait of George Washington, one of the American Founding Fathers and the United States’ first president.
Visitors often don’t recognize the portrait of George Washington in the art gallery at Fort Ligonier. They expect to find an image of the elder statesman, like the many created by early American ...
The George Washington portrait will be auctioned alongside a slew of American antiquities and artwork including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and silver in the annual Important Americana sale ...
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, a nonprofit dedicated to U.S. history education, also offered up a Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington. Selling for $529,000 ...
Its wood-paneled walls are filled with art, including a life-sized portrait of President George Washington painted in 1792 by John Trumbull (1756-1843). Upon closer inspection, the observant ...