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GILBERT STUART (1755-1828)

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ID 696172
Lot 344 | GILBERT STUART (1755-1828)
GILBERT STUART (1755-1828)

GEORGE WASHINGTON

oil on panel

27 x 21 1⁄2 in.

Painted circa 1820







Provenance

George Douglas (1793-1861), Scotland and New York, possibly by purchase from the artist

William Proctor Douglas (1842-1919), New York, son

M. Knoedler & Co., New York, February-April 1913

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness, New York, April 1913- December 1922

M. Knoedler & Co., New York, December 1922-January 1923

John Levy Galleries, New York, January 1923

Acquired from above, 1923





Literature

“List of Accessions, January 1-May 31, 1923,” Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, vol. 8, no. 2⁄3 (April- June 1923), p. 34.

“Another Stuart Masterpiece Brought to Light by Museum,” Boston Herald, 8 July 1923, p. 69.

“A Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart,” Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, vol. 8, no. 4 (October 1923), pp. 44-46.

Mantle Fielding, Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of George Washington (Philadelphia, 1923), p. 168, facing p. 226, no. 47.

Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. 2 (New York, 1926), p. 871, no. 48.

M.R. Rogers, “Exhibition of Early American Portraiture: 1750-1850,” Supplement to the Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, vol. 15 (November 1930), p. 9, no. 33.

The Frick Art Reference Library, ref. 121-20c4.





Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (at the Douglas Mansion, West 14th Street), 1873-1879. 

Saint Louis, Missouri, Saint Louis Art Museum, Exhibition of Early American Portraiture: 1750-1850, November 1930. 
Artist:Gilbert Stuart (1755 - 1828)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Genre:Portrait
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