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- Died: 9 July 1828 in Beantown, Massachusetts.
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- Born: 15 April 1741 in Chester, Maryland.
- During his long career, Charles Willson Peale painted about 1,100 portraits.
- Peale had never even seen a painting, much less tried his hand at painting, before 1762, when he was 21. Within 5 years, he was studying under Benjamin West in London and exhibiting with the Society of British Artists beside artists like Thomas Gainsborough.
- Between 1772 and 1795, George Washington sat for Peale a total of seven times — more than any other painter. These seven paintings from life were replicated, with variations, many times, by Peale and other painters in his family.
- Peale was a polymath. He developed expertise not just in painting, but also in such fields as carpentry, dentistry, optometry, shoemaking, taxidermy, and business.
- When John Isaac Hawkins patented the second physiognotrace (1802) — a mechanical drawing device — he partnered with Peale to market it to prospective buyers.
- Peale made improvements to another Hawkins’ device, the polygraph, a machine for making duplicates of letters. Thomas Jefferson used a series of these from 1806 until his death (1826). As Peale made improvements on the original design, Jefferson got a new one.
- Peale opened a portrait gallery of Revolutionary heroes (1782) and founded Peale’
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Head of Washington
Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741–1827)
about 1795–98
Medium/Technique Oil on panel
Dimensions 19.05 x 15.24 cm (7 1/2 x 6 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Charles Sumner
Accession Number74.29
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsPaintings
By the late 18th century, George Washington, first the Commander-in-chief of the victorious Continental Army and subsequently the first president of the United States, was the most famous person in America and one of the most renowned men in the world. Many artists took his likeness, but Charles Willson Peale was one of the first and most persistent, painting more than seventy likenesses of Washington during his career. Peale painted seven life portraits of Washington, beginning in 1772 when Washington was a colonel in the colonial militia, and ending in 1795, when he was midway through his second term as president. The "Head of Washington" is one of Peale's replicas of the canvas he painted in 1795; the original is in the New-York Historical Society. In addition to the MFA's painting, Peale completed at least seven other replicas of the 1795 canvas between 1795 and 1798; most are in private collections. (For a complete discussion of Peale's portraits of Washington and his replicas, see Charle