In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

A costume study comprised of more than 1,200 photographs of dated American portraits, from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, is also available for examination and comparison. The Charles ...

Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established a museum in Philadelphia. Dedicated to American history and natural history, the museum's exhibits ranged from presidential ...

The correction was made a day after The Inquirer published an article about the misspelling. The image of Peale, who was considered the artist of the American Revolution because of his scores of ...

The Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France has been commissioned to restore the 1779 painting from the ...

Faye Anderson, a public policy consultant and community historian, was on her way to Independence Hall a couple of weeks ago for her research on Moses Williams, a Black silhouette artist who had been ...

127.32 x 101.6 cm. (50.1 x 40 in.) ...

Peale descendants, including some artists, will meet June 19 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is exhibiting 221 paintings and other items in a show that represents a small sample of the family’s ...