[1] General George Washington stands near his enslaved servant William Lee, overlooking the Hudson River in New York, with West Point and ships in the background.

[9] On July 20, he wrote of his plans to return home aboard the frigate South Carolina, commanded by Commodore Alexander Gillon.

[1] Washington, in full military uniform, a blue coat over buff waistcoat and pants, is shown brightly lit in the center of a landscape, standing on a hill overlooking the Hudson River in New York.

In the background, West Point is visible on the left, with a red and white striped banner flying, perhaps the First Navy Jack.

A red turbaned Black servant, usually identified as William "Billy" Lee, attends Washington's horse in the right foreground.

[2] British engraver and print publisher, Valentine Green, created a mezzotint version entitled General Washington.

[16] In the Yale University Art Gallery catalogue, John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter, the portrait is described: Although still careful and restrained, the execution here is looser, recession in space more convincing, and the wooden quality observable in the faces of his earlier sitters has given way to a softer modeling.

[18][19] In 1925, the painting was featured on page one of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, and described in the article "The Charles Allen Munn Bequest".