America's old masters

By James Thomas Flexner

Subjects: Biography, Painting, Colonial, American Painters, Copley, john singleton, 1738-1815, Peale, charles willson, 1741-1827, Stuart, gilbert, 1755-1828, Painters, American, Painters, Colonial Painting, West, benjamin, 1738-1820

Description: Profiles the four eighteenth-century painters--Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Gilbert Stuart--who earned the earliest international acclaim for American art.