WASHINGTON (AP) They were named Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphael and Titian but they weren’t European artists — they belonged to a dynasty of American painters descended from Charles Willson ... 1,000 ...

click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably the most influential of the many images painting during Jefferson's lifetime. It has been publicly ...

Charles Willson Peale, for all his fame as a portrait painter ... painted George and Martha Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Lafayette and many of the other great men of the day in a style renowned ...

The portrait is one of the seven paintings of Washington by Charles Peale, and the only one to predate the American Revolution. Recommended Videos The Virginia Museum of History and Culture is ...