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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 George Washington oil on canvas


George Washington
George Washington
Painting ID::  32025
  mk77 1796 Oil on canvas 47 3/4x37in
  mk77 1796 Oil on canvas 47 3/4x37in

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Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Don Jose de Jaudenes y Nebot oil on canvas


Portrait of Don Jose de Jaudenes y Nebot
Portrait of Don Jose de Jaudenes y Nebot
Painting ID::  33828
  mk86 1794 Oil on canvas 128x100cm New York,The Metro-politan Museum of Art
  mk86 1794 Oil on canvas 128x100cm New York,The Metro-politan Museum of Art

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Gilbert Stuart Fohn Adams oil on canvas


Fohn Adams
Fohn Adams
Painting ID::  38337
  mk136 Oil on canvas 1826
  mk136 Oil on canvas 1826

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Gilbert Stuart George Washington oil on canvas


George Washington
George Washington
Painting ID::  39052
  mk140 1796 Oil on canvas 244.5x153cm
  mk140 1796 Oil on canvas 244.5x153cm

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Gilbert Stuart Sarah Siddons oil on canvas


Sarah Siddons
Sarah Siddons
Painting ID::  44571
  mk173 ca.1785 jOil on canvas 74.9x62.2cm
  mk173 ca.1785 jOil on canvas 74.9x62.2cm

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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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