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George Washington (also known as Washington and the Departure of the British Garrison from New York City) is a large full-length oil painting by American artist John Trumbull in 1790. Trumbull's earlier 1790 work, Washington at Verplanck's Point , which he had gifted to Washington's wife Martha, had been very well received.
In July, 1790, Trumbull received a commission from the corporation for the City of New York, led by Mayor Richard Varick, to paint the president's portrait. [13] [14] The result, George Washington, was a scaling-up of Washington at Verplanck's Point to nearly four times its size.
Washington at Verplanck's Point, by John Trumbull (1790). Verplanck's Point lies at the southernmost end of the hamlet of Verplanck in the town of Cortlandt, New York in the upper northwest corner of Westchester County.
Fraunces later served as steward of Washington's presidential household in New York City (1789–1790) and Philadelphia (1791–1794). Since the mid-19th century, there has been a dispute over Fraunces's racial identity. [4] According to his 1983 biographer, Kym S. Rice: "During the Revolutionary era, Fraunces was commonly referred to as 'Black ...
George Washington, also entitled George Washington and William Lee, is a full-length portrait in oil painted in 1780 by the American artist John Trumbull during the American Revolutionary War. [1] General George Washington stands near his enslaved servant William Lee, overlooking the Hudson River in New York, with West Point and ships in the ...
Under the July 1789 Residence Act, Congress moved the national capital to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a 10-year period, while the permanent national capital was under construction in what is now Washington, D.C. The federal departments vacated their offices in the building and moved to Philadelphia in 1790.
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Trumbull's portraits also include full lengths of General Washington (1790) and George Clinton (1791), now held in New York City Hall. [4] New York City Hall also hangs Trumbull's portrait of Mayor Richard Varick , who commissioned the 1790 portrait of Washington.