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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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Gilbert Stuart Colonel David Humphreys oil painting artist


Gilbert Stuart Colonel David Humphreys oil painting artist

Colonel David Humphreys
Painting ID::  74740
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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 cyf

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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of George Washington oil painting artist


Gilbert Stuart Portrait of George Washington oil painting artist

Portrait of George Washington
Painting ID::  75750
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Dimensions: 73.66 cm x 60.96 cm Medium: Painting - oil on canvas cyf

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Gilbert Stuart President oil painting artist


Gilbert Stuart President oil painting artist

President
Painting ID::  76162
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"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 cyf

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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of George Washington oil painting artist


Gilbert Stuart Portrait of George Washington oil painting artist

Portrait of George Washington
Painting ID::  76397
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1795(1795) Oil on canvas 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm) cjr

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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of James Madison oil painting artist


Gilbert Stuart Portrait of James Madison oil painting artist

Portrait of James Madison
Painting ID::  76978
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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. cjr

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