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George Washington

by Gilbert Stuart

ca. 1795–96
oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Stuart, Gilbertnotes
When he first sat for Stuart, President George Washington was sixty-three years old and near the end of his second term of office. Stuart subscribed to prevailing theories about physiognomy, which held that a study of the outward body could reveal a person's inner qualities. It took all of Stuart's colloquial powers to engage Washington in...
George Washington

by John Trumbull

1780
oil on canvas
36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Trumbull, John 
George Washington

by Adolf Ulrich Wertmuller

1795
oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 21 1/8 in. (65.4 x 53.7 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Wertmuller, Adolf Ulrich 
George Washington

by John Ramage

1789
Watercolor on ivory
2 1/16 x 1 3/8 in. (5.2 x 3.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Ramage, John 
George Washington

by Robert Field

ca. 1800
Watercolor on ivory in rose gold locket
3 1/8 x 2 7/16 in. (7.9 x 6.2 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Field, Robert 
George Washington: Design for an Engraving

by Alonzo Chappel

ca. 1860
Oil on paper mounted on paper and unstretched canvas
16 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (42.2 x 32.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Chappel, Alonzo 
George Washington: Design for an Engraving (After Gilbert Stuart)

by Alonzo Chappel

ca. 1860
Oil on paper mounted on paper and unstretched canvas
16 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (42.2 x 32.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Chappel, Alonzo 
George Weaver

by Anna Claypoole Peale

1833
Watercolor on ivory in gilded copper foliate locket
2 1/4 x 1 7/8 in. (5.8 x 4.8 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Peale, Anna Claypoole 
George William Fairfax

by Joseph Wood

1816
Watercolor on ivory
Sight: 2 9/16 x 2 in. (6.5 x 5.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Wood, Joseph 
George Wood

by Benjamin Trott

Watercolor on media
2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. (7.3 x 6 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Trott, Benjamin 
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