Organized by Montana State University in partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, in Washington DC, this conference will bring together American and French scholars to consider American-French, political-cultural exchange between 1776 and 1815 through an analysis of portraiture. Included among those artists whose work will be considered are Charles Willson Peale, Jacques-Louis David, Gilbert Stuart, and Antoine-François Callet.

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http://www.npg.si.edu/event/conference.html