Image: Washington 1772
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Description: The earliest authenticated portrait of George Washington shows him wearing his colonel's uniform of the Virginia Regiment from the French and Indian War. The portrait was painted about 12 years after Washington's service in that war, and several years before he would reenter military service in the American Revolution. Oil on canvas.
Title: Portrait of George Washington
Credit: Washington-Custis-Lee Collection, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia And at http://www.americanmilitaryhistorymsw.com/blog/536357-washingtons-mission/
Author: Charles Willson Peale
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License: Public domain
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