To George Washington from Charles Willson Peale, 8 July 1787

From Charles Willson Peale

[Philadelphia] July 8th 1787

Dr Sir

The Drapery and back ground of your Portrait is painted and if it is convenient to your Excellency to favor me with a setting to morrow morning, I will have my pallet sett with fresh ground Colours.1 I hope and believe this setting will make it equal to any ⟨Picture⟩ from the Pensil of your very much obliged friend & Hble Servt

C.W. Peale

LB, PPAmP: Charles Willson Peale Papers.

1. See Peale to GW, c. June 1787, n. 1.

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Title: To George Washington from Charles Willson Peale, 8 July 1787
Author: Peale, Charles Willson
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 8 July 1787

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Cite as: “To George Washington from Charles Willson Peale, 8 July 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-05-02-0232. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 5, 1 February 1787 – 31 December 1787, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, p. 249.]

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