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Oil Paintings
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Gilbert Stuart
1755-1828
Gilbert Stuart was born in North Kingston, R.I., on Dec. 3, 1755. At the age of 13 or 14 he studied art with the Scottish painter Cosmo Alexander in Newport. With Alexander he made a tour of the South and a journey to Edinburgh, where Alexander died in 1772. For about a year Stuart remained, poverty-stricken, in Scotland, but finally, working as a sailor, he managed to get back to America. There he executed a few portraits in a hard limner fashion. With the Revolutionary War threatening, his family, who had Tory sympathies, fled to Nova Scotia, and Stuart sailed for London, where he remained from 1775 to 1787. For the first 4 or 5 years, Stuart served as the first assistant of American expatriate painter Benjamin West, who had rescued him from poverty. From the first, Stuart showed an interest only in portraiture and had no desire to go into the branch of history painting West practiced. After his apprenticeship, Stuart became London's leading portrait painter, next to Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, whose style he emulated, as in a rare full-length portrait of William Grant of Congalton as The Skater (ca. 1782). For a while Stuart lived in splendor, but being a bad businessman and a profligate spender, he was in constant debt. He lived in Ireland from 1787 to 1792 and then returned to America to make a fortune, |
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Gilbert Stuart
John Bill Ricketts, also identified as, Breschard, the Circus Rider
John Bill Ricketts, also identified as, Breschard, the Circus Rider
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Gilbert Stuart
Lansdowne portrait of George Washington
Lansdowne portrait of George Washington (1797), which hangs in the White House.
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Gilbert Stuart
Catherine Brass Yates,
Catherine Brass Yates, 1794
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Gilbert Stuart
PeterGansevoortByStuart
Oil painting of American Revolutionary War General Peter Gansevoort.
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Gilbert Stuart
HoratioGatesByStuart
Oil painting of Continental Army general Horatio Gates.
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Gilbert Stuart
The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland by Gilbert Stuart
Description The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland by Gilbert Stuart 1787.jpeg
English: "The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland," oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Private collection. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
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Gilbert Stuart
Colonel Isaac Barre
ca. 1785(1785)
Oil on canvas
91 x 70.5 cm (35.83 x 27.76 in)
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Gilbert Stuart
Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights.
Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights.
1806
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Gilbert Stuart
Colonel Isaac Barre
Date ca. 1785(1785
Dimensions 91 x 70.5 cm (35.83 x 27.76 in)
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Gilbert Stuart
WashingtonAtDorchesterHeightsByStuart
Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights.
Date 1806(1806)
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Gilbert Stuart
Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott,
Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott, Jr., by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Oil on canvas. 27 1/2 in. x 23 1/4 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Gilbert Stuart
by the American artist Gilbert Stuart.
"William Woollett," oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. 35.5 in. x 27.75 in. Courtesy of the Tate Britain. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
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Gilbert Stuart
The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland
"The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland," oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Private collection. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
1787
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Gilbert Stuart
Colonel David Humphreys
"Colonel David Humphreys (1752-1818), B.A. 1771, M.A. 1774," oil on wood, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. 38 1/2 in. x 29 1/2 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Mrs. David Humphreys. Yale University, New Haven, Conn
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Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
"George Washington (1732-1799), L.L.D. 1781," oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. 29 5/16 in. x 24 1/8 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Chauncey M. Depew, Jr. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Gilbert Stuart
John Adams
National Museum of American Art
1826
76.2 cm x 53.6 cm
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Gilbert Stuart
Thomas Jefferson
National Gallery of Art, Washington
c. 1821
66 cm x 54.5 cm
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Gilbert Stuart
Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott
English: Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott, Jr., by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Oil on canvas. 27 1/2 in. x 23 1/4 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date circa 1820
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Gilbert Stuart
William Woollett
English: "William Woollett," oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. 35.5 in. x 27.75 in. Courtesy of the Tate Britain. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
Date 1783
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Gilbert Stuart
Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland
English: "The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland," oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Private collection. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
Date 1787
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1755-1828
Gilbert Stuart was born in North Kingston, R.I., on Dec. 3, 1755. At the age of 13 or 14 he studied art with the Scottish painter Cosmo Alexander in Newport. With Alexander he made a tour of the South and a journey to Edinburgh, where Alexander died in 1772. For about a year Stuart remained, poverty-stricken, in Scotland, but finally, working as a sailor, he managed to get back to America. There he executed a few portraits in a hard limner fashion. With the Revolutionary War threatening, his family, who had Tory sympathies, fled to Nova Scotia, and Stuart sailed for London, where he remained from 1775 to 1787. For the first 4 or 5 years, Stuart served as the first assistant of American expatriate painter Benjamin West, who had rescued him from poverty. From the first, Stuart showed an interest only in portraiture and had no desire to go into the branch of history painting West practiced. After his apprenticeship, Stuart became London's leading portrait painter, next to Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, whose style he emulated, as in a rare full-length portrait of William Grant of Congalton as The Skater (ca. 1782). For a while Stuart lived in splendor, but being a bad businessman and a profligate spender, he was in constant debt. He lived in Ireland from 1787 to 1792 and then returned to America to make a fortune,
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