Huzzah! You solved the mystery and completed the George Washington portrait! Huzzah! That was the way people said “Hooray!” in George Washington’s time.
You now know more about the portrait than most people would have when it was painted back in 1796. It shows us what George Washington looked like at the end of his second term as President, three years before he died. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., had the portrait for many years, on loan. Then the Gallery was able to buy the portrait because of a generous donation by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. Since this portrait is a national treasure, the Gallery decided to send it on tour around the United States until 2004, when it will return to its permanent home in the Gallery.
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George Washington (“Lansdowne” portrait) by Gilbert Stuart,
oil on canvas, 1796
National Portrait Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution
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