Portrait of George Washington, Charles Willson Peale

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. Oil on canvas. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: Artwork: 1772. Donated to the Washington and Lee University in 1897 (source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/13/earliest-known-painting-george-washington-comes-home-mount-vernon/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.79342450c844). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: George Washington. Collection: Washington and Lee University. Washington 1772

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Author: Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827)Source: commons.wikimedia.org

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