#gilbert stuart

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1783-1793 Gilbert Stuart - Portrait of a Family

(Indianapolis Museum of Art)

[usarthistory]

Gilbert Stuart

American painter (b. 1755, North Kingstown, d. 1828, Boston)

George Washington 1795 Oil on canvas, 77 64 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Stuart wanted to paint Washington, for he expected that he could make a "fortune" on images of the Revolutionary War hero and American leader. At the time the president sat for Stuart, the artist apparently tried to relax his sitter, offering, "Now, sir, you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart, the painter," to which the president responded, “Mr. Stuart need never feel the need for forgetting who he is and who General Washington is.” After Stuart's initial portrait of Washington, he made more than one hundred copies for American and European patrons eager to own an image of the illustrious sitter. They were of three types: a waist-length Vaughan version showing the right side of Washington's face; an Athenaeum variant displaying the left side; and a full-length Landsdowne example. The artist promised to give Martha Washington the original canvas of the Athenaeum portrait used to make the copies but unfortunately never kept his word.

[classic-art-favourites]

The Skater by Gilbert Stuart, 1782.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

do you ever see a colonial portrait of a man so conventionally attractive & in such a chill pose you're like "that's gotta be AI"

and then it turns out to be a 1785 self-portrait by renowned American Founders painter Gilbert Stuart??

y'know, the guy who did this:

and it turns out he's also the guy who did this:

I'm so proud to be an American rn

[paintingsandhistory]

George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait)

Artist: Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755-1828)

Date: 1796

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery / Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States

George Washington

George Washington (1732 - 1799), was unanimously elected the first president of the United States.

Before his election, he fought in the French and Indian War, commanded troops to victory in the Revolutionary War, and presided over the Constitutional Convention. As president, he installed the Supreme Court, proclaimed neutrality in the war between Britain and France, and suppressed the tax protest known as the Whiskey Rebellion. After serving two terms, Washington declined to run again. In his farewell address, he told the nation, “The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism.”

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Horatio Gates

Gilbert Stuart American ca. 1793–94

"This portrait, representing Revolutionary War hero General Horatio Gates (1728–1806), was painted long after he led his troops to victory at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. Although his military career was turbulent, the English-born Gates is represented in the uniform of a brigadier general, decorated with the medal that Congress ordered struck to commemorate his triumph at Saratoga. In his hand is a copy of the Saratoga Convention. The painting descended in the family of Gates' good friend, Colonel Ebenezer Stevens. The work is a blend of Stuart's more painterly English style and the Copleyesque forthrightness that defined American high style."

[beammeupplease]

Gilbert Stuart.

[feminineforms]

"Ann Barry" (1803/1805) by Gilbert Stuart