A sample of camera images depicting the 42nd president and his family is part of the new “Portraits From a Presidency” ...

Thus, in some ways, it is Mount Vernon that stands for the American national character. This essay is about Mount Vernon, George Washington, and the American national character.

Captured by Captain George Keppel of the HMS-Vestal, it became his property, and then that of his family, until 1946. Sold at auction in London, it was acquired by an American gallery owner.

Various artists’ portrayals of George Washington in the classic European style became the template for presidential portraits in the 19th and much of the 20th century. The most iconic ...

Marc Pachter, who led race to save George Washington portrait, dies at 80 As director of the National Portrait Gallery in 2001, he hunted for a donor to keep a famed painting of Washington in the ...

The painting, according to police, was created in the early 1800s and depicts a portrait of George Washington, one of the American Founding Fathers and the United States’ first president.

ENGLEWOOD, CO (3TV/CBS 5) — Authorities on Tuesday said they are seeking the public’s help locating a 200-year-old painting of George Washington that was stolen from a storage unit in ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Police in Englewood, Colorado, and the FBI are in hot pursuit after a 200-year-old portrait of the nation’s first president went missing from a storage unit. Described as ...