ID 1122130 
Los 469  | GILBERT STUART (1755-1828)
Schätzwert
$ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000 
GEORGE WASHINGTON (VAUGHAN TYPE)
oil on canvas
29 x 23 ¾ in.
Painted in 1795
Provenance
The Philips family, Manchester area, England:
Possibly Nathaniel Philips (1726-1808), Manchester and The Dales, Lancashire or his son Samuel Philips (1762-1824), Manchester and Heybridge Estate, Checkley, Staffordshire
Robert Philips (1794-1853), Heybridge Estate, nephew of Samuel
John William Philips (1827-1914), Heybridge Estate, son
[William] Morton Philips (1852-1940), Heybridge Estate, son, until 1923
Frank T. Sabin, London, by December 21, 1923, by purchase from above
Joseph Duveen, Duveen Brothers, New York, by purchase from above, February 4, 1924
Richard De Wolfe Brixey (1880-1943), New York City and Bedford, New York, by purchase from above, March 18, 1924
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of Richard De Wolfe Brixey, 1943
Literature
“A Stuart ‘Washington,’ Found in England, Bought by New Yorker,” Art News, vol. XXIII (February 21, 1925), p. 6.
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works (New York, 1926), vol. II, p. 852, no. 15, vol. IV, p. 599.
John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas (Philadelphia, 1931), p. 258, no. 15.
Gustavus A. Eisen, Portraits of Washington, vol. I (New York, 1932), pp. 40, 43.
Wood and Fielding, “Bust Portrait of George Washington, The Vaughan Type” (Philadelphia, 1932) [“No. 1 color reproduction of the best five Washington Portraits, Philadelphia, 1932. Folio with history on the reverse of the Plates,” as cited in Eisen, p. 43].
Charles Merrill Mount, Gilbert Stuart: A Biography (New York, 1964), p. 378.
Albert Ten Eyck Gardner and Stuart P. Feld, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815 (New York, 1965), p. 87.
John Caldwell and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque with Dale T. Johnson, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,vol. I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815, Kathleen Luhrs, ed. (New York, 1994), pp. 177-178.
Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles, Gilbert Stuart (New York, 2004), pp. 141-142, fig. 90.
The Frick Art Reference Library, no. 121-20, k4.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington Bicentennial Exhibition, 1932, no. 7.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fourteen American Masters, 1958-59.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Three Centuries of American Art, 1965.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966, no. 17; also San Francisco, M. H. De Young Museum, 1966.
| Künstler: | Gilbert Stuart (1755 - 1828) | 
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| Angewandte Technik: | Öl auf Leinwand | 
| Genre: | Porträt | 
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Gemälde | 
| Künstler: | Gilbert Stuart (1755 - 1828) | 
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| Angewandte Technik: | Öl auf Leinwand | 
| Genre: | Porträt | 
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Gemälde | 
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