Description
This print reproduces Rembrandt Peale’s 1795 oil portrait of George Washington. In 1795 Charles Willson Peale persuaded the president to sit for his son Rembrandt, then seventeen. Gilbert Stuart joked that Washington was in danger of being pealed all around when the father, brother Raphaelle, and uncle James joined the room.
The sitting is documented in Peale family accounts and in National Portrait Gallery literature on Rembrandt’s early Washingtons. The head is a life study, not the later porthole type Rembrandt invented in the 1820s. A separate Gilbert Stuart Athenaeum-type replica associated with Williamstown is sold as PP1100. This listing follows the 1795 Rembrandt sitting.
This listing is a contemporary print after the painting, not the original oil. Choose fine art paper, luster photo paper, or mounted canvas.
