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U.s.s.george washington battle group8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() One the ambassador had for the Court of France, another is done for the Spanish Court, one other has been sent to the island of Cuba, and sundry others, which I have on hand are for private gentlemen.” Copies of the painting vary in size and background, but they all feature Washington in the same posture leaning on the cannon, with a horse and a soldier in the back. In August 1779 Peale wrote: “I have on hand a number of portraits of Gen. The success of George Washington at Princeton led to orders for as many replicas of the painting. institutions, including the United States Senate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Colonial Williamsburg, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and Nassau Hall at Princeton University, where it is titled George Washington after the Battle of Princeton. Six of the paintings are presently housed in U.S. In January 2005, the painting sold for $21.3 million, the highest price ever paid for an American portrait. The original, now owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was completed in early 1779, when Washington sat for Peale in Philadelphia. The original was commissioned by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania for its council chamber in Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Washington at Princeton is a 1779 painting by Charles Willson Peale, showing George Washington after the Battle of Princeton. George Washington at the Battle of Princeton (1783) ![]()
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