In honor of President’s Day enjoy this portrait of President George Washington. When he first sat for Gilbert Stuart, Washington was sixty-three years old and near the end of his second term of office.
The portrait hangs in The Metropolitian Museum of Art in New York City.
Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828)
George Washington, begun 1795
Monday, February 18, 2013
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