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 Der Koch von George Washington oil painting


Der Koch von George Washington
mk181 Ol auf Leinwand 76x63.5cm
Painting ID::  45317
Gilbert Stuart
Der Koch von George Washington
mk181 Ol auf Leinwand 76x63.5cm
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart John Richardson oil painting


John Richardson
mk181 um1778 Boston
Painting ID::  45318
Gilbert Stuart
John Richardson
mk181 um1778 Boston
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Joseph Bailangte oil painting


Joseph Bailangte
mk212 1786 Oil on canvas 30x25in
Painting ID::  50508
Gilbert Stuart
Joseph Bailangte
mk212 1786 Oil on canvas 30x25in
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart George Washington oil painting


George Washington
mk212 after 1795 Oil on canvas 73.3x61cm
Painting ID::  50509
Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
mk212 after 1795 Oil on canvas 73.3x61cm
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Mrs. Richard Yates oil painting


Mrs. Richard Yates
mk234 1793/94 77x63cm
Painting ID::  53852
Gilbert Stuart
Mrs. Richard Yates
mk234 1793/94 77x63cm
   
   
     

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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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