Gilbert Stuart's extraordinary talent made him one of the most important American portrait artists of the 18th century. Most famous is his unfinished work of a US president: The so-called Athenaeum Portrait of George Washington. Started in 1796, Stuart never finished the painting, but kept it. Later he made about 75 copies of his own unfinished painting and sold them due to financial difficulties for a painter of his skill unworthy price of 100 US dollars each. Stuart's image of Washington can still be seen today on the US dollar bill. Stuart's remarkable portrait collections can be found in art museums and galleries around the world.
Gilbert Stuart was born in 1755 in the snuff mill of his father in the small town of Saunderstown in the United States. Six years later he moved with his family to Newport. There his interest in art grew and he began painting and drawing as a young boy. He painted his earliest known painting at the age of 14. It bears the title "Dr. Hunter's Dogs". As a teenager he was allowed to study and travelled with his Scottish artist colleague and good friend Cosmo Alexander.
As a 20-year-old Stuart was drawn to faraway England. In London he was taught by the famous American painter Benjamin West. The recognition by the English Royal Academy brought him the resounding success in the art scene. As a famous man he could finally move into his first own studio. Stuart married Charlotte Coates, but was less fortunate financially: he lived in England until 1787 when he fled to Ireland due to debts.
A few years later Gilbert Stuart returned to his home country America. He lived and worked in New York for two years before moving to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia he created his famous George Washington portraits and his copies. In 1805 he decided to make one last move and settled in Boston, where he lived until his death in 1828 at the age of 72. His burial place is not known.
Gilbert Stuart's great legacy are the famous portraits of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, of the heroes of the revolution and war of 1812, as well as portraits of prominent men and women of society at the time. His artistic talent lay in capturing the essence of his models precisely and thus radiating an extraordinary vividness.
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.jpg "Portrait of George Brown, father of the painter John Lewis-Brown, 1825 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of George Washington, Before 1801 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "George Washington, First President of the United States by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Lawrence Reid Yates, 1793-1794 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "The Todd Family, c.1785 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Colonel Isaac Barre by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Dr. James Stuart; Mary Campbell Stuart by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of George Washington (engraved by William Nutter, pub. by Robert Cribb, 1798) by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Dr. William Hartigan, c. 1793 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Theodosia Burr (later Theodosia Burr Alston, 1783) by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "George Washington Vaughan Portrait by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of Petrus Stuyvesant by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Sir Robert Liston by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Robert Liston by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Edward Stow, c. 1803 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "William Eustis by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Horatio Gates by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of Major General John Brooks, engraved by Asher Brown Durand after the copy by James Herring by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of Judge Daniel Cony of Maine, c.1815 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Commodore Isaac Hull, 1813-14 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of James Monroe, 1828 by Gilbert Stuart")
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_late_18th_century_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1499185).jpg "Captain John Harvey by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Sarah Shippen Lea, or Mrs. Thomas Lea by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of John Vaughan, c.1795 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Mrs. John Ashley by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "The Skater (Portrait of William Grant) by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Catherine Brass Yates Mrs. Richard Yates, 1793-1794 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Mrs. Philip Nicklin by Stephen James Ferris")
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.jpg "Washington Allston by Gilbert Stuart")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1219812).jpg "Abigail Smith Adams (Mrs. John Adams) by Gilbert Stuart")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1223962).jpg "Sarah Homes Tappan (Mrs. Benjamin Tappan) by Gilbert Stuart")
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_BA_1771_MA_1774_-_(MeisterDrucke-1339764).jpg "Colonel David Humphreys (1752-1818), B.A. 1771, M.A. 1774 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Mrs. Dolley Madison by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of Robert Livingston by Gilbert Stuart")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1516467).jpg "Portrait of Hugh Percy, Second Duke of Northumberland, c. 1788 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of George Washington by James Heath")
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.jpg "Lawrence Reid Yates by Gilbert Stuart")
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_c1782-87_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1505662).jpg "Captain Sir John Jervis, c.1782-87 by Gilbert Stuart")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1520941).jpg "Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates) by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Rufus King, American lawyer, politician and diplomat by Gilbert Stuart")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1642553).jpg "George Washington (1732-1799) by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Mary Barry by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton by Gilbert Stuart")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1221347).jpg "Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (Mrs. Lawrence Lewis) by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of George Washington")
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.jpg "Henry Rice, ca. 1815 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "William Thornton, 1804 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "General Amasa Davis, c.1820 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Captain Joseph Anthony by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Dr. William Hartigan by Gilbert Stuart")
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_american_politician_-_(MeisterDrucke-1423476).jpg "James Madison (1751-1836), American Politician by Gilbert Stuart")
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_LLD_1781_-_(MeisterDrucke-1366285).jpg "George Washington (1732-1799), LL.D. 1781 by Gilbert Stuart")
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.jpg "Portrait of Woollett, the Engraver by Gilbert Stuart")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1641935).jpg "Portrait of Hugh, 2nd Duke of Northumberland by Gilbert Stuart")
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