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

In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an ...

Ever since George Washington became ... collecting concern at the National Portrait Gallery ever since it opened its doors in 1968. The media for presidential imagery has ranged everywhere from the ...

The Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France has been commissioned to restore the 1779 painting from the ...