That’s my boy standing in front of Peale’s portrait of GW.  We were visiting the Crystal Bridges American Art Museum in Arkansas, which is a pretty place if you ever get the chance.

Title: George Washington
Artist: Charles Willson Peale, 1741 – 1827
Date: ca. 1780-1782
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm) Framed: 57 3/4 × 48 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.
Credit Line: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2010.70
Label Text: George Washington posed for Peale an unparalleled seven times. The artist had been an officer in the Continental Army under Washington and crossed the Delaware River with him during the New Jersey campaigns in the winter of 1777-78. Peale portrays Washington as a relaxed yet powerful military leader wearing the blue sash of commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. Although Washington leans against a cannon, at momentary rest, his body fills the foreground and he looks out at the viewer with a commanding gaze. The left background depicts Yorktown, Virginia, where Washington defeated the British in one of the last major battles of the American Revolution. The original owner of this painting, François-Jean de Beauvoir, the Chevalier de Chastellux, was part of the French military force that helped Washington achieve victory in Virginia.