James Peale, 1782 - George Washington - fine art print

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In the year 1782 James Peale painted this piece of art George Washington. The 230 years old version of the work of art measures the size of 36 x 27 in (91,4 x 68,6 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. Nowadays, this artwork is in the the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. This public domain artwork is being included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of William H. Huntington, 1885. : Bequest of William H. Huntington, 1885. Besides, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The American artist James Peale was a North American artist from United States, whose artistic style can mainly be attributed to Romanticism. The North American painter was born in the year 1749 in Chestertown and passed away at the age of 82 in 1831.

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James helped his elder brother Charles Willson Peale make replicas of his popular full-length portrait of Washington, commissioned in 1779 by the state of Pennsylvania. (A version of Charles' Washington portrait, 97.33, is also in the Met's collection.) The bright color and clean outlines of this small version are characteristic of James's style. After the Continental forces, assisted by the French, had triumphed over the British at Yorktown in 1781, James Peale sketched the battle site, including here a view of the harbor showing the protruding masts of sunken ships. The French and the American flags fly above the general's head and the banners of the conquered lie at his feet.

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