biografía de George Washington P. CUSTIS (1781-1857)

Lugar de nacimiento: Mount Airy, MD

Lugar de defunción: Arlington, VA

Direcciones: Alexandria, VA, 1809

Profesión: Painter

Estudios: with Cephas Thompson and William Dunlap

Exposiciones: U.S. Capitol; Ntl. Hotel

Comentarios: Adopted by his step grandfather, George Washington, most of Custis' works related to the glorification of the president. In 1809 he supervised a 40 foot allegorical painting for the ballroom of Caton's Hotel in Alexandria, and in the 1830s he began a series of large works, depicting parts of the Revolution in which Washington participated. Benson Lossing used the revolutionary paintings as illustrations for his article on Arlington in Harper's Monthly Magazine, 1853.

Fuentes: Wright, Artists in Virgina Before 1900; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.