| It is not surprising to find in the earliest art museum in the nation’s
capital a collection of images related to George Washington. William Wilson
Corcoran acquired a number of such paintings, including a full-length depiction
by Jane Stuart after her father, Gilbert Stuart, and a landscape view then thought
to be Washington’s Headquarters on the Hudson by Jasper F. Cropsey. Works
by artists noted for depictions of Washington came to the museum much later,
such as two of Stuart’s Athenaeum-type portraits and this immense portrayal
of the first president on horseback. . . .
- Linda Crocker Simmons, Curator Emeritus
Corcoran Gallery of Art |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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