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Name: Gilbert Stuart
Birth Date: December 3, 1755
Death Date: July 9, 1828
Place of Birth: North Kingston, Rhode Island, United States
Place of Death: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter

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Biography of Gilbert Stuart
1,306 words, approx. 4 pages
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), American painter, was the classical portraitist of the early republic, painting likenesses that hovered between meticulous representations and idealized generalizations. He created the iconic image of George Washington as...


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Gilbert Stuart Information
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Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 - July 9, 1828) was an American painter. Gilbert Stuart is widely considered to be one of America's foremost portraitists.[1] His best known work, George Washington (also known as The Athenaeum and...


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The Magazine Antiques
Gilbert Stuart in England and Ireland.
11/01/2004: 4,036 words, approx. 14 pages
The finest painter of America's early national period was only nineteen years old when he arrived in London in November 1775. Unlike his elder compatriots Benjamin West (see Pl. III) and John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), each of whom set out for Europe with an...
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The Boston Globe
Unfinished Business: Gilbert Stuart's Washington Portraits
05/03/2006: 697 words, approx. 2 pages
The painter Gilbert Stuart left Ireland and sailed for New York City in March 1793, abandoning debts he'd amassed during 18 years in London and Dublin and scheming to find his greatest subject. After years of painting British bigwigs, the 37-year-old aimed to return...
 


 

Gilbert Stuart

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