'Portraits of a President'

By Nick Barberio, Office of Communications on Feb. 10, 2014, noon
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Karl Kusserow, the John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, explains the unique history of a pair of portraits of U.S. President George Washington painted by Charles Willson Peale and held in the museum's collection. Read more.

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