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Charles Willson Peale's portrait of George Washington for the Maryland State House: "something better than a mere coppy".
On November 23, 1781, scarcely a month after the British surrender of General Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) at York-town fulfilled American hopes for independence, the members of Maryland's General Assembly gathered in the State House in Annapolis and unanimously resolved to commission a portrait of the victorious commander in chief, George Washington. Inspired by their zeal to honor the man who had become the first true American hero, the legislators directed Governor Thomas Sim Lee (1745-1819) "to write to Mr. Peale, of Philadelphia, to procure, as soon as may be, the portrait of his Excellency general Washington, at full length, to be placed in the house of delegates, ...
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