The Painter's Chair

The Painter's Chair
Author: Hugh Howard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-02-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1596912448

Traces the origins of art in the American republic as reflected in the portraits of George Washington and the lives of the artists who defined him, in an account that reveals the virtual absence of fine painters in early America and includes profiles of such artists as Charles Wilson Peale, John Trumbull, and Benjamin West. 25,000 first printing.