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Sam Streit tells us about Gustavus Hesselius, a leading Swedish-born American artist in the mid-Atlantic Colonies during the first half of the 18th century. | Sam Streit tells us about Gustavus Hesselius, a leading Swedish-born American artist in the mid-Atlantic Colonies during the first half of the 18th century. | ||
=====Finding Black Founders in Iconic Early American Portraits===== | |||
[https://www.pafa.org/events/finding-black-founders-iconic-early-american-portraits-101624 by PAFA] | |||
Join us for an Art at Noon featuring one of PAFA's iconic early American portraits, George Washington at Princeton (1779) by Charles Willson Peale, to discuss popular images of America's Black Founders through focusing on William Lee, Washington's enslaved valet. Lee was the only person Washington freed immediately in his will, and he did so, as he put it, "for his faithful services during the Revolutionary War." Lee was famous in his own time for his impressive equestrian skills and his role in the Revolution and his image was and is often associated with a painting by Trumbull. | |||
