![]() ![]() in describing to the World the manner of the man I am.” Gilbert Stuart’s ability to capture Washington on canvas drew similar praise-according to aficionado John Neal: “If George Washington should appear on earth, just as he sat to Stuart, I am sure that he would be treated as an impostor, when compared with Stuart’s likeness of him.” Of Peale, who created Washington’s very first portrait in 1772, Washington remarked “I fancy the skill of this Gentleman’s Pencil. Gilbert Stuart’s 1796 full-length portrait of Washington as president painted for the marquis of Lansdowne, since known as the Lansdowne portrait.Īlthough a reluctant portrait-sitter, Washington sat for both Charles Willson Peale and Gilbert Stuart on multiple occasions, and was painted by Peale in seven life portraits over the course of twenty-three years.Charles Willson Peale’s 1779 full-length portrait, George Washington at the Battle of Princeton and.Charles Willson Peale’s 1778 mezzotint, His Excellency Gen Washington, the first published engraving of Washington executed by an artist who had seen Washington.This lesson in the Imagining the Revolution series asks students to consider how eighteenth-century artists portrayed America’s champion, George Washington. He instilled stability amid revolution, and after independence was achieved, he embodied America’s potential to become a nation founded on civic virtue and republican ideals. ![]() Prior to the formal creation of the United States the spirit of that union lived in a man whom Americans had rallied around for more than a generation. ![]()
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