Edward Savage (artist)

Edward Savage (November 26, 1761 – July 6, 1817)[1] was an American portrait painter and engraver.

Although seemingly untrained in painting, he came into prominence in 1790 through his portrait of George Washington, intended as a gift to Harvard University.

Robert Edge Pine began the first representation of Congress Voting Independence (Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collection, Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia) in 1784, but it was unfinished at his death.

Its portraits of Anthony Wayne, Benjamin Rush, and Thomas Jefferson are highly esteemed.

The painting was in the collection formed by William F. Havemeyer, New York, until bought by Andrew Mellon and donated to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.