The story of First Lady Dolley Madison heroically saving a portrait of George Washington as she was being exiled from the White House during the War of 1812 has been circulated for centuries.

A rare lifetime depiction of George Washington from 1795 that was ... The auction includes another Washington portrait, a painting by Rembrandt Peale that is expected to sell for between US$ ...

By Ralph Blumenthal For years there had been skepticism about the large portrait of George Washington that has long hung in the baronial Paris residence of the U.S. ambassador to France.

In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an American victory over the British at the 1777 Battle of Princeton.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is partnering with local law enforcement to track down the painting and are asking for the public’s help in finding the stolen portrait of George Washington.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, a nonprofit dedicated to U.S. history education, also offered up a Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington. Selling for $529,000 ...

For one, Gregg Amore said the State House is no longer fit to house a giant portrait of former president George Washington that’s more than 200 years old and worth millions. "It is not being ...