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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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Gilbert Stuart The Skater oil painting

Painting ID::  83439

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Gilbert Stuart
The Skater
1782 oil on canvas, 245.5 x 147.4 cm (96 1/4 x 58 in.) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Gilbert Stuart John Quincy Adams oil painting

Painting ID::  85216

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Gilbert Stuart
John Quincy Adams
1818(1818) Medium oil on panel Dimensions 68 x 55.9 cm (26.8 x 22 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Gilbert Stuart Joseph Brant oil painting

Painting ID::  85536

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Gilbert Stuart
Joseph Brant
oil on canvas cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Gilbert Stuart Major-General Henry Dearborn oil painting

Painting ID::  86309

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Gilbert Stuart
Major-General Henry Dearborn
Date 1812(1812) Medium Oil on panel Dimensions 71.5 x 57.1 cm (28.1 x 22.5 in) cjr
   
   
     

 

 

Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Elizabeth Chipman Gray oil painting

Painting ID::  86571

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Gilbert Stuart
Portrait of Elizabeth Chipman Gray
Oil on canvas. Date c. 1800(1800) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Gilbert Stuart John Adams oil painting

Painting ID::  88751

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Gilbert Stuart
John Adams
1826(1826) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 76.2 x 53.6 cm (30 x 21.1 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Gilbert Stuart Der Schlittschuhlaufer oil painting

Painting ID::  89002

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Gilbert Stuart
Der Schlittschuhlaufer
1782(1782) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 245,5 x 147,5 cm cjr
   
   
     

 

 

Gilbert Stuart John Banister oil painting

Painting ID::  90644

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Gilbert Stuart
John Banister
oil on canvas circa 1773 cjr
   
   
     

 

 

Gilbert Stuart Thomas Jefferson oil painting

Painting ID::  91578

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Gilbert Stuart
Thomas Jefferson
1821(1821) Medium oil on panel Dimensions 66 x 54.5 cm (26 x 21.5 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Gilbert Stuart Portrait of John Randolph oil painting

Painting ID::  93258

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Gilbert Stuart
Portrait of John Randolph
1804-1805 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 73.6 x 61 cm (29 x 24 in) cjr
   
   
     

 

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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,