Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

On January 18, 1779, the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania passed a resolution commissioning a portrait of George Washington for the Council Chamber and selected Charles Willson Peale as ...

A portrait of Mark Esper from his time as Secretary of the Army placed in the Pentagon has been removed as of Wednesday. Within the first weeks of the Trump administration, the Pentagon has ...

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7 ...

the Washington Monument out of focus behind her. Her gaze is trained directly at the camera. The first lady’s portrait — and specifically, the pose she struck — has been compared online to ...

Vogue Magazine harshly criticized first lady Melania Trump’s official portrait unveiled by the ... hands resting on a reflective table with the Washington Monument behind her.

Berger suggests the angelic visual, framed from high above, is a metaphor for the cardinals to “find purity, the reason why they started in the first place with this job.” The allegorical imagery ...

Newly reinstated first lady Melania Trump is back in the White House, and if her latest official portrait ... Oval Room in its residential wing. The Washington Monument is visible through the ...

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