“Although John Trumbull’s 1790 painting Washington at Verplanck’s Point depicts the great general in colonial rather than Roman garb, he nonetheless retains many qualities of the classical hero. Shown with his horse as he inspects his troops in New York in 1782, Washington appears strong, confident, and commanding. This depiction was described as “the most perfect extant” by George Washington Parke Custis, Martha Washington’s grandson.” — excerpt from An American Vision, Henry Francis du Pont’s Winterthur Museum.