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WUDPAC alumna Emily MacDonald-Korth (Class of 2011) was part of a team of scholars who studied the painting Washington at Princeton and confirmed the attribution to Peale.
From the website of the Office of Cultural Heritage, U.S. Department of State:
“The Department of State has owned this Washington at Princeton portrait since 1989. An American living in Paris donated the portrait to the Department in her will. At the donor's request, the portrait has hung in the U.S. Embassy Paris Ambassador's Residence since that time. It was attributed to Colonial American painter, Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), but provenance could not be proven through the limited documentation available. The Office of Cultural Heritage contracted an art historian and art conservator to conduct a careful study of the painting. The study revealed, with a high degree of confidence, that the painting is, in fact, one of the original versions of Washington at Princeton by Charles Willson Peale, and that it is the Laurens-Albemarle painting."
More information about the painting's history, authentication study, and condition assessment is available on a special page on the State Department's website, which includes a 17-minute video that follows the scholars as they investigate this remarkable work.