It is a Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington. But this one is different from the other six Peale portraits of the first president. Painted in 1772, it shows a younger man ...

George Washington, who presently surveys the Oval Office from his position above the mantel in an 18th-century portrait by Charles Willson Peale, was wary of designs that smacked of royal ...

The Marquis de Lafayette, or at least a highly regarded facsimile of him, will address French Quarter Festival early birds in Jackson Square on Saturday, April 12, the culmination of a long ...

Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. By Jennifer ...

WASHINGTON (AP) They were named Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphael and Titian but they weren’t European artists — they belonged to a dynasty of American painters descended from Charles Willson ... 1,000 ...

Artifacts of military, political and everyday life The famous portrait by Charles Willson Peale of George Washington as the commander of the Virginia Regiment (1772) speaks to the role he held ...

War in Ukraine: President Trump issued a rare rebuke to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday, calling on him to stop his bombing campaign in Ukraine and agree to a U.S. peace proposal ...

George Clymer, one of only six men to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, risked fortune and safety for the cause of liberty. Portrait by Charles Willson Peale.

Think of it as a Colonial group chat. Portrait of Richard Henry Lee by Charles Willson Peale. Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery. “Richard Henry Lee later said that he and his colleagues ...

The Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France has been commissioned to restore the 1779 painting from the US embassy to its original glory. For 40 years, a large full-length painting ...