President Washington George Washington at Princeton, 1779 Charles Wilson Peale The Lansdowne Portrait, 1796 Gilbert Stuart George Washington, 1791 Jean‐Antoine Houdon George Washington, 1840 Horatio Greenough Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939 Grant Wood “Hail Columbia” • Philip Phile composed “The President’s March” in 1793 • in 1798, Joseph Hopkinson set patriotic words to the march • Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration, had been composing since the 1760s
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