Three new art exhibits opening for Memorial Day offer a good opportunity to see another side of Annapolis, its visual arts. It's also a parade weekend in Annapolis, and time for alfresco dining to ...

Richard Wilson's family has a legacy of preservation and exhibition. His great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), was a saddlemaker, silversmith, inventor, watchmaker and ...

This portrait of Benjamin Latrobe was painted in 1804 by noted artist Charles Willson Peale. Latrobe was America’s first prominent architect and had eight commissioned projects in Kentucky ...

At the time, studying art was prominently dominated by Europeans, which is why Philadelphia artists and philanthropists including Charles Willson Peale, the Academy’s first president ...

Artifacts of military, political and everyday life The famous portrait by Charles Willson Peale of George Washington as the commander of the Virginia Regiment (1772) speaks to the role he held ...

It is a Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington. But this one is different from the other six Peale portraits of the first president. Painted in 1772, it shows a younger man ...

Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. By Jennifer ...

George Washington, who presently surveys the Oval Office from his position above the mantel in an 18th-century portrait by Charles Willson Peale, was wary of designs that smacked of royal ...

The Marquis de Lafayette, or at least a highly regarded facsimile of him, will address French Quarter Festival early birds in Jackson Square on Saturday, April 12, the culmination of a long ...

At its entrance up against a bold red wall, Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of George Washington as a colonel in the Virginia Regiment is showcased alongside his silver-hilted smallsword worn ...

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Above the fireplace, a Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington has replaced the smaller version that once hung there. The walls are now crowded with closely ...