GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799)

U.S. President 1789-1797
Selections from the Archives of American Art

From the Charles Henry Hart Autograph Collection, a letter from painter Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) to C. E. Lester, March 16, 1846.

Peale discusses a a change he wishes to make in his poem "Peale's Washington," about his portrait of General George Washington, pointing out that Gilbert Stuart's portrait of  Washington was painted at the same time as his, "Washington giving Stewart [sic] his first sitting, between my first and second."  

 

 

 

a letter from painter Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) to C. E. Lester, March 16, 1846

Also from the Charles Henry Hart autograph collection are a lithograph made after this portrait by Peale, and a photograph of an elderly Rembrandt Peale. 

a lithograph made after a portrait of George Washington by Peale
a photograph of an elderly Rembrandt Peale


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