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[https://www.pafa.org/events/finding-black-founders-iconic-early-american-portraits-101624 by PAFA] | [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. | 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. | ||
=====Ten Great American Revolution Paintings, 1790-1860===== | |||
[https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/treasures-of-the-american-revolution/ten-great-american-revolution-paintings/ by THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INSTITUTE] | |||
Choosing just ten great paintings of the American Revolution from this period is a challenge. John Trumbull painted eight iconic scenes of the American Revolution, in addition to dozens of portraits of participants. Some of the others on our list painted several important paintings of the American Revolution. To illustrate the variety of artists involved and wide range of subjects that drew their interest, we have limited our selections to one great painting by each artist. This means that our list doesn’t include Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence or his Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown—unquestionably two of the most important paintings of the American Revolution. This list is no more than an introduction to a rich and varied group of important works, all of which depict major events. | |||
