Buy tickets now for a virtual lecture delivered by the best-selling historian Martha, then the first lady, was 65 when she sat for that famous portrait ... Washington, painted in oil by Rembrandt ...

Charles Willson Peale, for all his fame as a portrait ... painted George and Martha Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Lafayette and many of the other great men of the day in a style renowned for ...

Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established ... son Raphaelle had painted Absalom Jones in 1810) went to Washington to record the likenesses of distinguished Americans ...

The portrait is one of the seven paintings of Washington by Charles Peale, and the only one to predate the American Revolution. Recommended Videos The Virginia Museum of History and Culture is ...