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 The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland by Gilbert Stuart oil painting


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.
Painting ID::  67716
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.
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Colonel Isaac Barre oil painting


Colonel Isaac Barre
ca. 1785(1785) Oil on canvas 91 x 70.5 cm (35.83 x 27.76 in)
Painting ID::  70894
Gilbert Stuart
Colonel Isaac Barre
ca. 1785(1785) Oil on canvas 91 x 70.5 cm (35.83 x 27.76 in)
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights. oil painting


Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights.
Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights. 1806
Painting ID::  71528
Gilbert Stuart
Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights.
Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights. 1806
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Colonel Isaac Barre oil painting


Colonel Isaac Barre
Date ca. 1785(1785 Dimensions 91 x 70.5 cm (35.83 x 27.76 in)
Painting ID::  71904
Gilbert Stuart
Colonel Isaac Barre
Date ca. 1785(1785 Dimensions 91 x 70.5 cm (35.83 x 27.76 in)
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart WashingtonAtDorchesterHeightsByStuart oil painting


WashingtonAtDorchesterHeightsByStuart
Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights. Date 1806(1806) cyf
Painting ID::  72738
Gilbert Stuart
WashingtonAtDorchesterHeightsByStuart
Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights. Date 1806(1806) cyf
   
   
     

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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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