File:Washington 1772.jpg

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Charles Willson Peale: Washington in the Uniform of a British Colonial Colonel  wikidata:Q67172559 reasonator:Q67172559
Artist
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827)  wikidata:Q454945
 
Charles Willson Peale
Description American portrait painter
Date of birth/death 15 April 1741 Edit this at Wikidata 22 February 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death St. Paul's Parish, Maryland Philadelphia Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
East coast of North America
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q454945
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Title
Portrait of George Washington
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
The earliest authenticated portrait of George Washington shows him wearing his colonel's uniform of the Virginia Regiment from the French and Indian War. The portrait was painted about 12 years after Washington's service in that war, and several years before he would reenter military service in the American Revolution. Oil on canvas.
Depicted people George Washington Edit this at Wikidata
Date Artwork: 1772. Donated to the Washington and Lee University in 1897 (source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/13/earliest-known-painting-george-washington-comes-home-mount-vernon/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.79342450c844)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Washington and Lee University
Accession number
1951.80 (National Portrait Gallery) Edit this at Wikidata
References
Source/Photographer Washington-Custis-Lee Collection, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
And at https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection/p13110coll5/id/2601/
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Uniform of a colonel in the Virginia militia

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Hand-in-waistcoat

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