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How does nineteenth-century engraving of Washington and his troops welcoming a train of supplies reinforce Washington's image as a strong leader?

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Americans perceive the hero of the American Revolution and first president as a man of passion, faith and action. Out of the many artists, Stuart’s portrait of George Washington in the nineteenth-century is the most reproduced and remembered as it reflects features of a leader with an exemplary character and conviction. A writer and an art critic in the early nineteenth-century John Neal, once wrote, “the only idea that we now have of George Washington, is associated with Stuart’s Washington.”
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