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| − | In 1824, Peale painted a portrait of Washington through an stone oval window; this window is decorated with a garland of oak leaves, and it is surmounted by the ''Phydian head of Jupiter''. It was purchased by Congress in 1832 and still hangs in the US Capitol. The portrait became known as his "Porthole" picture. Peale also painted the portraits of [[Thomas Jefferson]] (1805), John C. Calhoun, William Henry Harrison and Chief Justice John Marshall. He completed over 600 paintings. | + | In 1824, Peale painted a portrait of Washington through an stone oval window; this window is decorated with a garland of oak leaves, and it is surmounted by the ''Phydian head of Jupiter''. It was purchased by Congress in 1832 and still hangs in the US Capitol. The portrait became known as his "Porthole" picture. Peale also painted the portraits of [[Thomas Jefferson]] (1805), [[John C. Calhoun]], William Henry Harrison and Chief Justice John Marshall. He completed over 600 paintings. |
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Rembrandt Peale (Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1778 - Philadelphia, 1860) American Neoclassical painter. The son of painter Charles Willson Peale, he is considered one of the most distinguished painters of the 19th American century.
At the age of seventeen he painted the last portrait of George Washington to be done from life. [1]
In 1824, Peale painted a portrait of Washington through an stone oval window; this window is decorated with a garland of oak leaves, and it is surmounted by the Phydian head of Jupiter. It was purchased by Congress in 1832 and still hangs in the US Capitol. The portrait became known as his "Porthole" picture. Peale also painted the portraits of Thomas Jefferson (1805), John C. Calhoun, William Henry Harrison and Chief Justice John Marshall. He completed over 600 paintings.
George Washington (ca. 1795 - 1823).
The Roman Daughter, 1811.
Equestrian Portrait of George Washington.
George Washington Before Yorktown, 1823.
Patriæ Pater, 1824.
