George Washington
Portrait, oil on canvas by Christian Gullager, 1789
73.5 cm x 60.7 cm; in frame: 101.6 cm x 87.6 cm
The artist Christian Gullager painted this portrait of George Washington on 3 November 1789, just six months after Washington became the first president of the United States. Boston gentlemen paid for the portrait with the proceeds from a raffle. Washington wrote in his diary, "Sat two hours in the forenoon for a Mr. [Gullager], painter, of Boston, at the request of Mr. Brick, of that place, who wrote Major Jackson that it was an earnest desire of many of the inhabitants of that town that he might be indulged." At the time the portrait was painted, Washington was on a private visit to a friend in Portsmouth, N.H., in between official visits to the northeastern states as the new president.
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