Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . the English artist Robert Edge Pine, andtwo pastels by James Sharpies. No portrait of Wash-ington by Trumbull was available, but an example maybe seen in the Governors Room of the City Hall, NewYork City. The portraits by Stuart are so familiar that we havechosen for illustration the one by Charles Willson Peale(1741-1827) which is probably little known to the publicat large. It depicts Washington as Commander in Chiefof the Continental Army. Trumbull says Peale paintedWashington fourteen times from life. He, like many otherartists, derived a considerable part of hi
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . the English artist Robert Edge Pine, andtwo pastels by James Sharpies. No portrait of Wash-ington by Trumbull was available, but an example maybe seen in the Governors Room of the City Hall, NewYork City. The portraits by Stuart are so familiar that we havechosen for illustration the one by Charles Willson Peale(1741-1827) which is probably little known to the publicat large. It depicts Washington as Commander in Chiefof the Continental Army. Trumbull says Peale paintedWashington fourteen times from life. He, like many otherartists, derived a considerable part of his income from paint-ing replicas and copies of his own portraits of Washingtonfor the legislative halls of the various states, or for privatecitizens. The earliest portrait of Washington we have waspainted by Peale at Mount Vernon in 1772, and depicts himas a Colonel of the Virginia militia. In 1777 Congress,then sitting in Philadelphia, ordered from Peale a fulllength portrait, and before this canvas, said to have been 77. ?tl 2 tu ui UJ zD. - 0) ^ Q. 2 = ?= I- Q. z z begun at Valley Forge in 1778, was completed, the battlesof Princeton and ]Momnouth had been fought. It is alsorecorded that during a sitting at Princeton, Peak, at Wash-ingtons suggestion, introduced a view of the town as seenfrom the window showing the Hessian prisoners. Severalcaptured regimental flags are on the ground beside him,and Washington wears a full uniform of the Commanderin Chief with his left hand resting upon a cannon. Thecanvas was finished in Philadelphia and bears date 1779,and. Congress adjourning without making an appropria-tion for it, it was left on the hands of the artist. The por-trait illustrated is of this type, of which Peale made severalcopies, one hanging in the Gallery at Versailles and one inthe Metropolitan Museum. No reference to the Washington portraits would becomplete without quoting his reply to a request that hepermit Pine to paint his portrait, part of which is as follows:
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