Programs and Events - George Washington: A National Treasure

However unimportant America may be considered at present... there will assuredly come a day when this country will have some weight in the scale of empires. -George Washington to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, Mount Vernon, May 28, 1788


	George Washington by Charles Willson Peale, mezzotint, 1780 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

This exhibition has completed its national tour but the portrait can be viewed at the National Portrait Gallery when it reopens July 1, 2006. Visit www.npg.si.edu to learn more.

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This exhibition was made possible through the generosity of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation