Artist/Maker
Charles Willson Peale
(American, 1741 – 1827)
Depicted
George Washington
(American, 1732 – 1799)
George Washington (1732–1799)
1795
Place madePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 29 × 23 3/4 in. (73.7 × 60.3 cm)
Framed: 39 3/4 in. × 34 7/8 in. × 5 in. (101 × 88.6 × 12.7 cm)
Framed: 39 3/4 in. × 34 7/8 in. × 5 in. (101 × 88.6 × 12.7 cm)
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
1867.299
Washington came for three sittings in the fall of 1795 to the second floor of the American Philosophical Society building in Philadelphia where the Peale Museum was then located. This portrait remained in the Peale Museum until it was purchased at the sale of 1854 by the donor.
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