View A pair of portrait miniatures: George and Martha Washington, After John Wollaston (1710-1775) and Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), by Mary Custis Lee (1807-1873) (1869) After Charles Willson ...

Martha Washington commissioned the original full-length painting in 1772, proudly displaying it in the front parlor of Mount Vernon, their family home. The small portrait of Charles Willson Peale on ...

Peale first painted Washington in 1772, creating a portrait to commemorate Washington’s service as colonel in charge of the Virginia Regiment, that now hangs at Washington and Lee University.

Like most males then and since, George Washington did his best to squirm out of having his picture done. It took all the prodding and blandishments of his wife Martha to make him agree to have ...

C.W. Peale, however, thought the Equestrian Portrait more like--Judge Washington alternated between the two. [Gallery Notice.] Exhibition of the Court of Death, at R. Peale's Painting-Room, south-east ...

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 ...

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.

Like a favorite child, the portrait of Rubens Peale was a welcome guest in the homes of the extended Peale family for nearly 150 years. One of its owners was vAlbert Charles Peale (1849-1914), who ...