Quick quiz for you this morning: whose portrait is on the front of the one-dollar bill? That’s right, George Washington, first President of the United States. If you have a one-dollar bill on you, I’d encourage you to take it out right now and look at it. Don’t worry, this isn’t my sneaky way of taking up a special offering. If you don’t have one on you, you may want to look up an image of one on your phone.

The man who painted Washington’s portrait was a famous artist named Gilbert Stuart. He painted a life-size portrait of Washington in 1795. It is 8 feet tall, 5 feet wide, very detailed. The painting was so well-received that Martha Washington asked him to paint a second portrait in 1796. But the second painting was very different from the first one. Stuart painted just the face of Was…