![]() The exhibit opened 200 years almost to the day after the newly formed and fragile United States declared war on the British Empire, one of the mightiest powers of the age. ![]() “It’s art telling history, that’s a lot of what we do,” Hart told Reuters on a tour of the exhibit, the first major show to tell the story of the war with artifacts from the United States, Britain, Ireland and Canada. The core of the treasures are scores of works from what curator Sidney Hart called “the Golden Age of Anglo-American portraiture,” including a dozen pieces by early American master Gilbert Stuart. The wide-ranging show, “1812: A Nation Emerges” at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, brings together more than 100 paintings, sculptures, artifacts and documents to explain the little-known war and its deep impact on the infant United States. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The War of 1812 may be the United States’ forgotten conflict, but an unprecedented art museum exhibit shows that there was a lot more to it than the “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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