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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

click image for close-up Although he was known primarily as a portraitist, Charles Willson Peale's The Accident on Lombard Street provides an example of how Peale used his work to make statements ...