Museum Treasures George Washington Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) Name/Title: George Washington Date Made: ca. 1847 Maker: Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) Nationality: American Place Made: USA: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Materials: Oil on canvas Measurements: overall: 36 in x 29 in x in Accession Number: 75.6 Credit Line: Gift of John Bartholomew Webster Object Type: Painting     George Washington sat for Rembrandt Peale in the fall of 1795. Peale produced about seventy copies from the original, long after Washington's death. This portrait is derived chiefly from two 1795 portraits from life that were painted by Rembrandt and his father which were taken on tour in 1823-25. A subsequent version, with Washington wearing a black velvet Senatorial mantle was purchased by the United States Congress in 1832. It was a heroically-scaled canvas, the spandrel of which contains a mask of the Phidian Zeus (Jupiter) in the keystone and the inscription "Patriae Pater." This present copy was painted in 1847 for Henry Paul Beck of Philadelphia, for which Peale charged $125.00. Peale termed it "the Portrait of our National Father." Email Your Question From: Your Question: << Return

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