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

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 ...

At the time, the Washington portrait was “attributed” to the American painter Charles Willson Peale but widely believed to be a copy until the artwork was cleaned in 2015. A technical analysis ...

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 ...

In addition to more than 1,000 portraits and a long family line, the prolific Peale also may have created a set of false teeth for George Washington to wear while sitting for portraits. No one knows ...

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 image of Peale, who was considered the artist of the American Revolution because of his scores of portraits of major figures of the Revolution, including George Washington, is among dozens of ...