Charles Willson Peale, 1779 - George Washington - fine art print

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On January 18, 1779, the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania passed a resolution commissioning a portrait of George Washington for the Council Chamber and selected Charles Willson Peale as the artist. In preparation, Peale traveled to the Princeton and Trenton battlefields in February of 1779 to make sketches for the background. The original portrait, the full-length version now in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, was a tremendous success and Peale completed numerous copies for royal palaces abroad, each time updating the general's military dress. This figure of George Washington was probably painted between June and August of 1780. In every other version, Washington is shown after the Battle of Princeton, but here he is depicted after the Battle of Trenton, the turning point of the war. It has been suggested that this portrait was commissioned upon the order of Mrs. Washington, because it is the only portrait in which Washington wears his state sword and because the painting descended in the Washington family.

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In 1779 Charles Willson Peale painted this classic art artwork. The version of the masterpiece was painted with the size: 95 x 61 3/4 in (241,3 x 156,8 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the medium of the artpiece. It is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. We are glad to mention that the public domain piece of art is supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Collis P. Huntington, 1897. Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Collis P. Huntington, 1897. Moreover, alignment is portrait and has a ratio of 2 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% shorter than the width.

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