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GILBERT STUART (1755-1828)

Lot 207
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 207 | GILBERT STUART (1755-1828)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 1 000 000
GILBERT STUART (1755-1828)
George Washington (Athenaeum-Type)
oil on canvas
29 ½ x 24 1/8 in. (74.9 x 61.3 cm.)
Commissioned in 1804.




Provenance

President James Madison (1751-1836), Washington D.C. and Montpelier, Virginia
Dolley Madison (1768-1849), Montpelier and Washington D.C., widow
William Henry Aspinwall (1807-1875), New York City and Rockwood, Tarrytown, New York
Col. Lloyd Aspinwall (1857-1886), New York, son
William Henry Aspinwall (1857-1910), New York, son
Samuel P. Avery, Jr. (1847-1920), New York
Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), Providence, Rhode Island, by purchase from above, April 24, 1894
James W. Ellsworth (1849-1825), Chicago
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by purchase from above, March-April 1923
William K. Bixby (1857-1931), St Louis, Missouri, by purchase from above, April 1923
Ehrich Galleries, New York
Richard Livingston Clarkson (1892-1969), New York, by purchase from above, 1929
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, by gift from above, 1951



Literature

“Mr Aspinwall’s Gallery,” Harper’s Weekly, February 26, 1859, p. 132.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Gallery of W. H. Aspinwall (New York, 1860), p. 45.
Clarence Winthrop Bowen, The Centennial Celebration of George Washington as First President of the United States: Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics (New York, 1889), pp. 144, 545, no. 33, opp. p. 133 (illustrated).
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. VIII (New York, 1900), p. 47 (referenced).
Mantle Fielding, Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of George Washington (Philadelphia, 1923), p. 188, no. 67.
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. 2 (New York, 1926), p. 879, no. 68.
“Washington Portrait by Stuart is Sold,” New York Times, October 29, 1929, p. 14.
John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1931), p. 292, no. 67.
Edward Alden Jewell, “Exhibitions of Washingtonia,” New York Times, February 22, 1932, p. 22.
Gustavus A. Eisen, Portraits of Washington, vol. 1 (New York, 1932), pp. 177, 285, pl. LXXVI.
Frick Art Reference Library, no. 121-20/ j4.
Duncan S. Somerville, The Aspinwall Empire (Mystic, Conn., 1983), pp. 102, 114 (referenced).
John K. Howat, “Private Collectors and Public Spirit: A Selective View,” in Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861, edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat (New Haven, Conn., 2000), p. 105 (referenced).
Christine Mathieson, “Ambition's Apex: The Private Art Gallery of the Aiken-Rhett House” (Master’s Thesis, Clemson University and the College of Charleston, 2011), p. 58, available at https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1088 (referenced).



Exhibited

New York, New York, Mr. Aspinwall’s Gallery, circa 1859-1860.
New York, New York, Metropolitan Opera House, Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics, The Centennial Celebration of George Washington as First President of the United States, April 17-May 8, 1889.
New York, Ehrich Galleries, February-March 2, 1932.
Alexandria, Virginia, Woodlawn Plantation, 1988-1992.
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