Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are ...

On January 18, 1779, the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania passed a resolution commissioning a portrait of George Washington for the Council Chamber and selected Charles Willson Peale as ...

Gilbert Stuart, Lansdowne portrait (George Washington), 1796. [Image: Wiki Commons] This precedent began as early as George Washington, who chose to be depicted in his civilian attire despite his ...

"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are ...