GREEN, VALENTINE, engraver. General Washington. London: Valentine Green January 15th, 1781. Mezzotint on paper, 635 x 410 mm, matted and framed, excellent condition. Handsome portrait of Washington after the painting by John Trumbull. It depicts the general standing on a bluff above the Hudson River as battle ensues. West Point is visible to the left and Washington's slave Billy Lee is with a horse in the right. Trumbull, who had served on Washington's staff as an aide-de-camp early in the Revolutionary War, painted this portrait from memory about five years later in London. It was Europe's first authoritative representation of Washington and soon copied throughout the Continent. Baker 147; Creswell 215; Hart 84.
GREEN, VALENTINE, engraver. General Washington. London: Valentine Green January 15th, 1781. Mezzotint on paper, 635 x 410 mm, matted and framed, excellent condition. Handsome portrait of Washington after the painting by John Trumbull. It depicts the general standing on a bluff above the Hudson River as battle ensues. West Point is visible to the left and Washington's slave Billy Lee is with a horse in the right. Trumbull, who had served on Washington's staff as an aide-de-camp early in the Revolutionary War, painted this portrait from memory about five years later in London. It was Europe's first authoritative representation of Washington and soon copied throughout the Continent. Baker 147; Creswell 215; Hart 84.
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