George Washington at Princeton
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 131 × 121.6 cm · framed: 153 × 144 × 7 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Membership Income Fund
Accession Number
1917.946
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
Because Peale served under General Washington and befriended him during the Revolutionary War, he was an ideal candidate to commemorate Washington's important early victory at Princeton, NJ. Here, in the quiet aftermath of battle, the general is accompanied by his horse and a groomsman, identified by some scholars as William Lee, a mixed-race enslaved man Washington forced to work as his personal assistant. Also present is a line of captured British redcoat soldiers that animates the background ...