George Washington #3 is a painting by Charles Peale Polk which was uploaded on July 16th, 2020.
George Washington #3
Polk used his uncle Charles Willson Peale's so-called Convention portrait as the basis for this image; Peale painted the original portrait from life... more
Title
George Washington #3
Artist
Charles Peale Polk
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Polk used his uncle Charles Willson Peale's so-called Convention portrait as the basis for this image; Peale painted the original portrait from life at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Polk portrayed Washington numerous times from various sources but never from life. In 1790 Polk wrote to Washington requesting a sitting and stating that he had executed fifty portraits of him during the previous year.
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July 16th, 2020
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