You might have observed George Washington's birthday on the 18th, but he was actually born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
This miniature painting of the great general is a copy after a portrait by John Trumbull.
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You might have observed George Washington's birthday on the 18th, but he was actually born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
This miniature painting of the great general is a copy after a portrait by John Trumbull.
John Trumbull, known as the painter of the American Revolution, served as an aide-de-camp to George Washington during the war with Britain. He remained friends with the first president and painted more than a dozen portraits of him.
In 1791, Washington praised Trumbull's work in a letter to Lafayette in Paris: "His pieces, as far as they are executed, meet the warm applause of all who have seen them. The greatness of the design, and the masterly execution of the Work equally interest the man of a capacious mind and the approving eye of the Connoisseur."
Pictured: Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, 1797–1877, General George Washington, about 1845, watercolor on ivory, 6 15/16 x 5 1/16 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry Du Pre Bounetheau.