3746247 George Washington, 1795 (oil on canvas) by Wertmuller, Adolf Ulrich (1751-1811); 65.4x53.7 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: George Washington (1732-1799) was the first President of the United States (1789??7), and one of its Founding Fathers, presiding over the convention that drafted the current US Constitution. The Swedish portraitist Wertmuller worked in Paris until the French Revolution drove him to Philadelphia. In early November 1794 he completed his first portrait of Washington, which he replicated many times. ).