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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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The Skater
1782
oil on canvas, 245.5 x 147.4 cm (96 1/4 x 58 in.)
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Painting ID:: 83439
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The_Skater
1782
oil on canvas, 245.5 x 147.4 cm (96 1/4 x 58 in.)
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John Quincy Adams
1818(1818)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 68 x 55.9 cm (26.8 x 22 in)
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Painting ID:: 85216
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John_Quincy_Adams
1818(1818)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 68 x 55.9 cm (26.8 x 22 in)
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Joseph Brant
oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 85536
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Joseph_Brant
oil on canvas
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Major-General Henry Dearborn
Date 1812(1812)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 71.5 x 57.1 cm (28.1 x 22.5 in)
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Painting ID:: 86309
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Major-General_Henry_Dearborn
Date 1812(1812)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 71.5 x 57.1 cm (28.1 x 22.5 in)
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Portrait of Elizabeth Chipman Gray
Oil on canvas.
Date c. 1800(1800)
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Painting ID:: 86571
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Portrait_of_Elizabeth_Chipman_Gray
Oil on canvas.
Date c. 1800(1800)
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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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