Description
This print reproduces James Sharples’s pastel portrait of George Washington, drawn in 1796. Sharples, an English pastelist, made three life portraits of Washington in Philadelphia: a left profile now at the National Portrait Gallery, a right profile later hung at Mount Vernon, and a three-quarter view.
Washington sat while still president. Pastel on paper was Sharples’s working method. He traveled with a physiognotrace and produced small, repeatable likenesses of American public men. Mount Vernon holds a Sharples Washington. The National Portrait Gallery catalogs a 1796 pastel profile. This listing follows that 1796 sitting, a dry drawing rather than an oil state portrait.
This listing is a contemporary print after the painting, not the original oil. Choose fine art paper, luster photo paper, or mounted canvas.
