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 George Washington oil painting


George Washington
mk77 1796 Oil on canvas 47 3/4x37in
Painting ID::  32025
Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
mk77 1796 Oil on canvas 47 3/4x37in
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Don Jose de Jaudenes y Nebot oil painting


Portrait of Don Jose de Jaudenes y Nebot
mk86 1794 Oil on canvas 128x100cm New York,The Metro-politan Museum of Art
Painting ID::  33828
Gilbert Stuart
Portrait of Don Jose de Jaudenes y Nebot
mk86 1794 Oil on canvas 128x100cm New York,The Metro-politan Museum of Art
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Fohn Adams oil painting


Fohn Adams
mk136 Oil on canvas 1826
Painting ID::  38337
Gilbert Stuart
Fohn Adams
mk136 Oil on canvas 1826
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart George Washington oil painting


George Washington
mk140 1796 Oil on canvas 244.5x153cm
Painting ID::  39052
Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
mk140 1796 Oil on canvas 244.5x153cm
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Sarah Siddons oil painting


Sarah Siddons
mk173 ca.1785 jOil on canvas 74.9x62.2cm
Painting ID::  44571
Gilbert Stuart
Sarah Siddons
mk173 ca.1785 jOil on canvas 74.9x62.2cm
   
   
     

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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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