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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...