XIR212830 Washington Reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland, Maryland, after 1795 (oil on canvas) by Kemmelmeyer, Frederick (d.1821) (attr. to); 57.8x94.6 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: George Washington (1732-1799) first President of the United States (1789??7) and one of its Founding Fathers, presiding over the convention that drafted the current US Constitution. In 1794 a rebellion in western Pennsylvania was precipitated by Scottish-Irish immigrant objection to the 1792 excise laws on distilled spirits. Washington??? arrival to review his troops, quelled the resistance and was an early test of his power.); American, out of copyright.