Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott, Painting ID:: 72880 new24/Gilbert Stuart-383465.jpg
Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott, Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott, Jr., by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Oil on canvas. 27 1/2 in. x 23 1/4 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Gilbert Stuart The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland Painting ID:: 72902 new24/Gilbert Stuart-797735.jpg
The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland "The Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland," oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Private collection. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
1787
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Gilbert Stuart Colonel David Humphreys Painting ID:: 72923 new24/Gilbert Stuart-978345.jpg
Colonel David Humphreys "Colonel David Humphreys (1752-1818), B.A. 1771, M.A. 1774," oil on wood, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. 38 1/2 in. x 29 1/2 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Mrs. David Humphreys. Yale University, New Haven, Conn
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Gilbert Stuart George Washington Painting ID:: 72924 new24/Gilbert Stuart-747785.jpg
George Washington "George Washington (1732-1799), L.L.D. 1781," oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. 29 5/16 in. x 24 1/8 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Chauncey M. Depew, Jr. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Gilbert Stuart John Adams Painting ID:: 74296 new24/Gilbert Stuart-759887.jpg
John Adams National Museum of American Art
1826
76.2 cm x 53.6 cm
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Gilbert Stuart Thomas Jefferson Painting ID:: 74304 new24/Gilbert Stuart-633584.jpg
Thomas Jefferson National Gallery of Art, Washington
c. 1821
66 cm x 54.5 cm
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott Painting ID:: 74654 new24/Gilbert Stuart-879675.jpg
Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott English: Portrait of Connecticut politician and governor Oliver Wolcott, Jr., by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Oil on canvas. 27 1/2 in. x 23 1/4 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date circa 1820
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Gilbert Stuart William Woollett Painting ID:: 74716 new24/Gilbert Stuart-336454.jpg
William Woollett English: "William Woollett," oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. 35.5 in. x 27.75 in. Courtesy of the Tate Britain. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
Date 1783
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Gilbert Stuart Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland Painting ID:: 74717 new24/Gilbert Stuart-356949.jpg
Children of the Second Duke of Northumberland 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.
Date 1787
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Gilbert Stuart Colonel David Humphreys Painting ID:: 74740 new24/Gilbert Stuart-963547.jpg
Colonel David Humphreys English: "Colonel David Humphreys (1752-1818), B.A. 1771, M.A. 1774," oil on wood, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. 38 1/2 in. x 29 1/2 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Mrs. David Humphreys. Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date circa 1808-1810
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of George Washington Painting ID:: 75750 new24/Gilbert Stuart-336884.jpg
Portrait of George Washington Dimensions: 73.66 cm x 60.96 cm
Medium: Painting - oil on canvas
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Gilbert Stuart President Painting ID:: 76162 new24/Gilbert Stuart-444837.jpg
President "This portrait originally belonged to a set of half-length portraits of the first five U.S. presidents that was commissioned from Stuart by John Doggett, a Boston framemaker and art dealer
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of George Washington Painting ID:: 76397 new24/Gilbert Stuart-375535.jpg
Portrait of George Washington 1795(1795)
Oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm)
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of James Madison Painting ID:: 76978 new24/Gilbert Stuart-567473.jpg
Portrait of James Madison Portrait of James Madison, comissioned by Honorable James Bowdoin III: the oil on canvas painting measures 48 1/2 in. x 39 3/4 in. (123.19 cm x 100.97 cm), and was painted by Gilbert Stuart, who made additional copies after completion of the work.
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of John Jay Painting ID:: 77036 new24/Gilbert Stuart-894396.jpg
Portrait of John Jay 1794(1794)
Oil on canvas
131 ?? 102 cm (51.57 ?? 40.16 in)
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Gilbert Stuart George Washington Painting ID:: 77768 new24/Gilbert Stuart-745794.jpg
George Washington 1795(1795)
Oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm)
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of George Washington Painting ID:: 78272 new24/Gilbert Stuart-885926.jpg
Portrait of George Washington 1795(1795)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm)
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Robert R. Livingston Painting ID:: 78937 new24/Gilbert Stuart-568369.jpg
Portrait of Robert R. Livingston 1793-1794
Oil on canvas
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Robert R. Livingston Painting ID:: 78943 new24/Gilbert Stuart-848644.jpg
Portrait of Robert R. Livingston 1793-1794
Oil on canvas
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Gilbert Stuart Anna Payne Cutts Painting ID:: 79112 new24/Gilbert Stuart-483499.jpg
Anna Payne Cutts oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Anna Payne Cutts was the sister of First Lady Dolley Payne Madison, wife of President James Madison. Courtesy of the collection of the White House, Washington, D. C.
Date 1804(1804)
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Gilbert Stuart Second Duke of Northumberland Painting ID:: 79429 new24/Gilbert Stuart-736938.jpg
Second Duke of Northumberland 1787(1787)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Gilbert Stuart George Washington Painting ID:: 79626 new24/Gilbert Stuart-567499.jpg
George Washington 1795(1795)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm)
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Gilbert Stuart Anna Payne Cutts Painting ID:: 79806 new24/Gilbert Stuart-833979.jpg
Anna Payne Cutts oil on canvas, by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. Anna Payne Cutts was the sister of First Lady Dolley Payne Madison, wife of President James Madison. Courtesy of the collection of the White House, Washington, D. C.
Date 1804(1804)
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds Painting ID:: 80349 new24/Gilbert Stuart-653834.jpg
Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds 1784(1784)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 91.6 x 76.4 cm (36.1 x 30.1 in)
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of James Madison Painting ID:: 80428 new24/Gilbert Stuart-973576.jpg
Portrait of James Madison oil on canvas painting measures 48 1/2 in. x 39 3/4 in. (123.19 cm x 100.97 cm
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of John Jay Painting ID:: 80463 new24/Gilbert Stuart-335598.jpg
Portrait of John Jay 1794(1794)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 131 x 102 cm (51.6 x 40.2 in)
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Gilbert Stuart John Quincy Adams. Painting ID:: 81163 new24/Gilbert Stuart-838556.jpg
John Quincy Adams. Date 1818(1818)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 68 x 55.9 cm (26.8 x 22 in)
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Gilbert Stuart Harrison Gray Otis Painting ID:: 81259 new24/Gilbert Stuart-975854.jpg
Harrison Gray Otis 1809(1809)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 81.28 cm x 66.04 cm
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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Govenor John Brooks Painting ID:: 83382 new24/Gilbert Stuart-343664.jpg
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,