Gilbert Stuart | |
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 Stuart in a c. 1825 portrait by Sarah Goodridge | |
| Born | Gilbert Stewart[1] December 3, 1755 |
| Died | July 9, 1828 (aged 72) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | George Washington (The Athenaeum Portrait) (1796) George Washington (Lansdowne portrait) (1796) George Washington (Vaughan portrait) (1795) The Skater (1782) Catherine Brass Yates (1794) John Adams (1824) |
Gilbert Stuart (né Stewart; December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter born in the Rhode Island Colony who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists.[2] His best-known work is an unfinished portrait of George Washington, begun in 1796, which is usually referred to as the Athenaeum Portrait. Stuart retained the original and used it to paint scores of copies that were commissioned by patrons in America and abroad. The image of George Washington featured in the painting has appeared on the United States one-dollar bill for more than a century[2] and on various postage stamps of the 19th century and early 20th century.[3]
Stuart produced portraits of about 1,000 people, including the first six Presidents.[4] His work can be found today at art museums throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Frick Collection in New York City, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, the National Portrait Gallery in London, Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.[5]
- ^ "Gilbert Stuart (1775–1828)". Worcester Art Museum. Archived from the original on December 20, 2015. Retrieved February 4, 2008.
- ^ a b Park, 1926, vol. 1, p. 15. He was baptised without a middle name but occasionally adopted the middle name "Charles" when in London, apparently to connect himself with the last serious Stuart claimant to the British throne. See Dorinda Evans, Gilbert Stuart and the Impact of Manic Depression, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2013, p. 127.
- ^ "10-cent Washington". Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
- ^ "Gilbert Stuart Birthplace". Archived from the original on November 16, 2005. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), The Story of Gilbert Stuart. Woonsocket Connection. Retrieved July 25, 2007. - ^ Gilbert Stuart Archived July 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. ArtCyclopedia. Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries. Retrieved July 24, 2007.