NPG senior historian David C. Ward discusses Charles Willson Peale. Charles Willson Peale is best remembered as an artist, but he was also the proprietor of the first important museum in America, the ...

Oil on paper mounted on Japan mounted on aluminum-faced aluminum honeycomb panel Mrs. Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Bryn Mawr, PA 1923. Estate of Suzanne Colton Wilson (great, great granddaughter of the ...

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Standing valiantly in front of an active battleground and Nassau Hall in the distance, “George Washington at the Battle of Princeton” by Charles Willson Peale was one of the first paintings acquired ...