Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Charles Stewart
American
Gilbert Stuart was an American artist, notable for painting portraits. - AsNotedIn
Gilbert Stuart was an American artist, notable for painting portraits. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1755/12/03 | Elizabeth Anthony Stewart, wife of Gilbert Stewart, gives birth to a son, Gilbert Stewart, in Saunderstown, a village of North Kingstown in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. | Birth place | Gilbert Stuart Birthplace | North Kingstown, RI | Gilbert Stuart's Birthday | ||
| 1756/04/11 | Rev James MacSparran baptizes Gilbert Stuart, "son of Gilbert Stewart ye Snuff Grinder", at St Paul's Church. | Faith | Old Narragansett Church | North Kingstown, RI | |||
| 1777/00/00 | After William Grant says that the day is better suited for skating than sitting for one's portrait, he and Stuart go ice skating on The Serpentine in Hyde Park. Stuart will paint Grant on ice skates in a winter landscape. | Painter | The Skater (Portrait of William Grant) | The Serpentine, London | Hyde Park | ||
| 1794/00/00 | With a letter of introduction from John Jay in hand, Gilbert Stuart travels to Philadelphia to request sittings with George Washington. | Artist | |||||
| 1795/00/00 | George Washington first sits for Stuart in 1795, a portrait showing Washington facing right, is known only through replicas that are identified as the Vaughan type. | Artist | |||||
| 1796/00/00 | Martha Washington commissions Stuart to paint a pair of portraits of her and her husband for Mount Vernon. These are now called "Athenaeum" portraits because the Boston Athenaeum acquired them after Stuart's death. | Painter | |||||
| 1796/04/12 | At Stuart's house, Gilbert Stuart begins painting GW, The Lansdowne portrait, for Senator William Bingham. Washington said his agreeable expression was due to the conversations he had with Harriet Chew during the sittings. | Artist | George Washington (Lansdowne) | ||||
| 1806/08/00 | Gilbert Stuart paints George "Washington at Dorchester Heights". | Artist | Washington at Dorchester Heights (painting) | ||||
| 1816/04/00 | Persuaded by Rembrandt Peale and Gilbert Stuart "that it would be a public wrong that such a collection of pictures - the like of which had never been in America - should pass out of the country entirely unenjoyed", Calverts open their home to visitors. | Life | Riversdale | Riverdale Park, MD |
3 Creative Works by Gilbert Stuart »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| The Skater (Portrait of William Grant) | Painter | Painting | 1777/00/00 |
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| George Washington (Lansdowne) | Artist | Painting | 1796/04/12 |
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| Washington at Dorchester Heights (painting) | Artist | Painting | 1806/08/00 |
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