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George Washington Portrait Sets American Record

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A portrait of George Washington that sold at Sotheby's last year didn't make its estimate but that wasn't the case yesterday at Christie's. The AP reports that Charles Willson Peale's full-length portrait of George Washington on the American Revolutionary War battlefield sold for $21.3 million to art dealer C.L. Prickett setting a world record for American portraits. The painting was one of eight full-length portraits of Washington painted by Peale and is the only one known to be in private hands.

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