By George, that's a pricey painting!

[Black_Ivy]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Charles Willson Peale's full-length portrait of George Washington on the American Revolutionary War battlefield fetched $21.3 million at auction Saturday, setting a world record for the sale of an American portrait, Christie's auction house said.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/22/washington.portrait.ap/index.html

 

[JPPT1974]

Only a billionaire could afford a painting such as that my friends!