Category:Washington in the Uniform of a British Colonial Colonel (C.W. Peale)

**Washington in the Uniform of a British Colonial Colonel**
	painting by Charles Willson Peale
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Instance of	painting;
Main subject	George Washington;
Depicts	George Washington
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	portrait;
Location	Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia
Creator	Charles Willson Peale;
Collection	National Portrait Gallery;
Inventory number	1951.80 (National Portrait Gallery);
Inception	1772;
Authority file
	Q67172559;
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Washington in the Uniform of a British Colonial Colonel (C.W. Peale)

Charles Willson Peale: Washington in the Uniform of a British Colonial Colonel

Artist



Description	American portrait painter
Date of birth/death	15 April 1741	22 February 1827
Location of birth/death	St. Paul's Parish, Maryland	Philadelphia
Work location	East coast of North America
Authority file	: Q454945 VIAF: 72190360 ISNI: 0000000082623463 ULAN: 500017914 LCCN: n80025860 NLA: 35413732 Open Library: OL1064058A GND: 118790080 SELIBR: 399997 SUDOC: 027590496 BNF: 11959775w CiNii: DA06190190 RKD: 62236 J9U: 987007280547005171 Koninklijke: 070907986 WorldCat

Title

Portrait of George Washington in the Uniform of a British Colonial Colonel

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

The earliest authenticated portrait of George Washington shows him wearing his colonel's uniform of the Virginia Regiment from the French and Indian War. The portrait was painted about 12 years after Washington's service in that war, and several years before he would reenter military service in the American Revolution.

Depicted people

George Washington

Date

1772

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

127.9 × 104.2 cm (50.3 × 41 in)

Collection

Washington and Lee University

	Location	Lexington , United States of America
	Coordinates	37° 47′ 12″ N, 79° 26′ 39″ W
	Established	1749
	Website	www.wlu.edu
	Authority file	: Q1785291 VIAF: 138361020 ISNI: 0000000121679145 LCCN: n79046221 NLA: 36564413 GND: 1055504-3 WorldCat

Current location

Lee Chapel

Accession number

1951.80

References

National Portrait Gallery ; Smithsonian

Media in category "Washington in the Uniform of a British Colonial Colonel (C.W. Peale)"

The following 8 files are in this category, out of 8 total.

Washington 1772.jpg 2,418 × 3,000; 1.22 MB
Washington 1772FXD.jpg 2,418 × 3,000; 1.06 MB
Art and artists of our time (1888) (14781198861).jpg 1,490 × 1,888; 1.19 MB
George Washington in 1772 at age 40.jpg 2,432 × 3,016; 6.58 MB
Major George Washington - 1754.tif 428 × 526; 660 KB
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway (1904) (14758989596).jpg 1,150 × 1,476; 201 KB
Washington, George, the Virginia Colonel (3-4 length), 1772 - NARA - 532861.jpg 2,345 × 3,000; 2.25 MB
Washington, George, the Virginia Colonel (3-4 length), 1772 - NARA - 532861.tif 2,345 × 3,000; 6.71 MB

Category:Washington in the Uniform of a British Colonial Colonel (C.W. Peale)

Media in category "Washington in the Uniform of a British Colonial Colonel (C.W. Peale)"

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