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 Portrait of James Madison oil


Portrait of James Madison
Painting ID::  80428
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 cyf
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Portrait of John Jay oil


Portrait of John Jay
Painting ID::  80463
Portrait of John Jay
1794(1794) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 131 x 102 cm (51.6 x 40.2 in) cyf
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart John Quincy Adams. oil


John Quincy Adams.
Painting ID::  81163
John Quincy Adams.
Date 1818(1818) Medium oil on panel Dimensions 68 x 55.9 cm (26.8 x 22 in) cjr
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Harrison Gray Otis oil


Harrison Gray Otis
Painting ID::  81259
Harrison Gray Otis
1809(1809) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 81.28 cm x 66.04 cm cyf
   
   
     

Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Govenor John Brooks oil


Portrait of Govenor John Brooks
Painting ID::  83382
Portrait of Govenor John Brooks
c. 1820, cyf
c._1820,_ 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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