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Charles Peale Polk Portrait with Nassau Hall in Background

Charles Peale Polk Portrait with Nassau Hall in Background

Princeton University. Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.

Source: Simmons, Charles Peale Polk, p.xii (cat.24)

At this time, Washington complied with a request of the trustees to sit for a portrait by Charles Wilson Peale, which, at their direction, was placed in the prayer hall in the frame that had been occupied by the portrait of King George II.

Source: Leitch p. 328ff