Martha overcame homelessness in Washington County with help from SHS, becoming a tenant and decorating her apartment with her ...

The painting is the first of seven portraits of Washington made from life by Peale and the only portrait of Washington that predates the American Revolution. It was commissioned by Martha Washington ...

Junius Brutus Stears recreated the scene in a 1849 painting called The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis, one in a series of five paintings representing Washington as Citizen, Farmer ...

it included Martha Custis Washington, the wealthy widow whom Washington had married 30 years earlier, and her two Custis grandchildren. In the life-size painting that Savage completed in 1796 ...