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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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George Washington
mk77
1796
Oil on canvas
47 3/4x37in
Painting ID:: 32025
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George_Washington
mk77
1796
Oil on canvas
47 3/4x37in
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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
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Portrait_of_Don_Jose_de_Jaudenes_y_Nebot
mk86
1794
Oil on canvas
128x100cm
New York,The Metro-politan Museum of Art
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Fohn Adams
mk136
Oil on canvas
1826
Painting ID:: 38337
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Fohn_Adams
mk136
Oil on canvas
1826
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George Washington
mk140
1796
Oil on canvas
244.5x153cm
Painting ID:: 39052
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George_Washington
mk140
1796
Oil on canvas
244.5x153cm
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Sarah Siddons
mk173
ca.1785
jOil on canvas
74.9x62.2cm
Painting ID:: 44571
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Sarah_Siddons
mk173
ca.1785
jOil on canvas
74.9x62.2cm
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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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