This document provides information about a new biography titled "GEORGE WASHINGTON’S INDISPENSIBLE MAN: Who was Will Lee?" by James C. Thompson. The biography is 250 pages long, costs $25, and was published in December 2014 by Commonwealth Books of Virginia. It explores the life of Will Lee, who served as George Washington's personal servant and was considered an indispensable part of Washington's life. The document includes images of portraits of George Washington by various artists from the 18th century.

1. GEORGE WASHINGTON’S INDISPENSIBLE MAN
Who was Will Lee?
by James C. Thompson
Biography/American History
ISBN: 978-0-9854863-6-5
250 pages
$25.00
Cloth Bound Original
Commonwealth Books of Virginia
December 1, 2014
www.commonwealthbooks.org

2. George Washington
by John Trumbull (1780 – 1781)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3. Detail: George Washington
by John Trumbull (1780 – 1781)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4. George Washington
by John Trumbull (1780 – 1781)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

5. George Washington
by Valentine Green after John Trumbull (1781)
New York Public Library

6. Le Général Washington
by Noël Le Mire after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1781)
Library of Congress

7. Le Général Washington
by Noël Le Mire after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1781)
Library of Congress
The whereabouts
of the 1779 Camp Portrait of
Le Général Washington
by Jean Baptiste le Paon
is not known

8. (The Hancock) George Washington
by Charles Willson Peale (1776)
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn,
New York
Le Général Washington
by Jean Baptiste le Paon (1779 – 1780)
after C W Peale (1776)
Mount Vernon
This is one of La Paon copies of the copy
Peale made of his 1776 “Hancock Portrait”
of Washington. Lafayette bought Peale’s
copy in 1777 and brought it to France in
the winter of 1779.

9. George Washington
by Charles Willson Peale (1776)
Mount Vernon
Le Général Washington
by Jean Baptiste le Paon (1779 – 1780)
after C W Peale (1776)
Mount Vernon

10. George Washington
by Charles Willson Peale (1776)
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Le Général Washington
by Noël Le Mire (1781)
after Jean Baptiste le Paon
(1779)
Library of Congress
George Washington
by Valentine Green (1781)
after John Trumbull (1780 - 81)
New York Public Library
Le Général
Washington
by Jean Baptiste le Paon
(1779 – 1780)
after C. W. Peale
(1776)
Mount Vernon

11. Groom
Le Général Washington
by Noël Le Mire (1781)
after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1779 – 80)
Library of Congress
Groom
George Washington
by Valentine Green (1781)
after John Trumbull (1780 = 81)
New York Public Library

12. Louis Philippe d'Orléans, as Duke of
Chartres
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ca. 1779
Château de Chantilly
Groom
George Washington
by Valentine Green (1781)
after John Trumbull (1780 = 81)
New York Public Library

13. Groom
Le Général Washington
by Noël Le Mire (1781)
after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1779 – 80)
Library of Congress

14. Groom
George Washington
by Valentine Green (1781)
after John Trumbull (1780 = 81)
New York Public Library

15. George Washington
by Valentine Green after John Trumbull (1781)
New York Public Library
Le Général Washington
by Noël Le Mire after Jean Baptiste le Paon (1781)
Library of Congress

16. GEORGE WASHINGTON’S INDISPENSIBLE MAN
Who was Will Lee?
by James C. Thompson
Biography/American History
ISBN: 978-0-9854863-6-5
250 pages
$25.00
Cloth Bound Original
Commonwealth Books of Virginia
December 1, 2014
www.commonwealthbooks.org