Americans
perceive the hero of the American Revolution and first president as a man of
passion, faith and action. Out of the many artists, Stuart’s portrait of George
Washington in the nineteenth-century is the most reproduced and remembered as
it reflects features of a leader with an exemplary
character and conviction. A writer and an art critic in the early nineteenth-century
John Neal, once wrote, “the only idea that we now have of George Washington, is
associated with Stuart’s Washington.”
