A Brush with History 
Subtitle: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781584650805
Subjects: Portrait painting, American; National Portrait Gallery (Smi; Catalogs; Art & Art Instruction; Washington (D.C.); Art; Subjects & Themes - Human Figure; Portrait painting; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Art / General; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General
First sentence: As the new nation began its journey through history, Charles Willson Peale reasoned that it would be valuable for a republic to have the likenesses of those who had played a prominent part in the struggle for independence.