1776-1865 1776-1865
 
 
 

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The social and economic dislocations of the American Revolution brought building virtually to a halt. Painting also languished. Between Copley's departure and the return of Gilbert Stuart in 1792, no first-rate artist was working in the former colonies. The commissions of the Continental Congress went to the Philadelphian Charles Willson Peale, creator of the first monumental portraits of George Washington.

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 Architecture Painting after 1776  Pre Civil War Sculpture  Albert Bierstadt