Flickr - USCapitol - Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto

William H. Powell
Oil on canvas, 12' x 18'
1853; placed 1855
Rotunda
U.S. Capitol
William Henry Powell’s dramatic and brilliantly colored canvas was the last of the eight large historical paintings in the Rotunda commissioned by the Congress.

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