Michaan's Auctions
2701 Monarch Street, Alameda, CA 94501Contact Details
- Phone number
- (510) 740-0220
- catherine@michaans.com
- Website
Gilbert Stuart ART DEALERS
1755 North Kingstown, Rhode Island - 1828 Boston, Massachusetts. Known for: Portrait painting, some genre-figure.
Likely America's best-known portrait painter, Gilbert Stuart is difficult to track biographically because so many parts of his life have been embellished or cloaked by his biographers who have... Read full biography
Likely America's best-known portrait painter, Gilbert Stuart is difficult to track biographically because so many parts of his life have been embellished or cloaked by his biographers who have romanticized the life of this man so associated with the portraits of George Washington. And he also told... Read full biography
Likely America's best-known portrait painter, Gilbert Stuart is difficult to track biographically because so many parts of his life have been embellished or cloaked by his biographers who have romanticized the life of this man so associated with the portraits of George Washington. And he also told untrue, embellished stories about himself. Stuart was, in fact, a temperamental, hard-living man who lived way beyond his means, which left him and his family in impoverished circumstances. He was the... Read full biography
Likely America's best-known portrait painter, Gilbert Stuart is difficult to track biographically because so many parts of his life have been embellished or cloaked by his biographers who have romanticized the life of this man so associated with the portraits of George Washington. And he also told untrue, embellished stories about himself. Stuart was, in fact, a temperamental, hard-living man who lived way beyond his means, which left him and his family in impoverished circumstances. He was the son of a snuff-mill owner in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Of Scottish descent, he had the baptismal name of Gilbert Stewart but changed it to the Jacobite spelling, wanting to be associated in name with the royal Stuart family of England. When the... Read full biography
Likely America's best-known portrait painter, Gilbert Stuart is difficult to track biographically because so many parts of his life have been embellished or cloaked by his biographers who have romanticized the life of this man so associated with the portraits of George Washington. And he also told untrue, embellished stories about himself. Stuart was, in fact, a temperamental, hard-living man who lived way beyond his means, which left him and his family in impoverished circumstances. He was the son of a snuff-mill owner in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Of Scottish descent, he had the baptismal name of Gilbert Stewart but changed it to the Jacobite spelling, wanting to be associated in name with the royal Stuart family of England. When the mill failed, the Stewart family moved to Newport, Rhode Island where the young Gilbert took early training from local portraitist Samue... Read full biography
Gilbert Stuart - Affiliates (3 Galleries and Auction Houses)
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William Vareika Fine Arts
212 Bellevue Ave., Newport, RI 02840Contact Details
- Phone number
- (401) 849-6149
- info@vareikafinearts.com
- Website
Schwarz Gallery
1806 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103Contact Details
- Phone number
- 2155634887
- mail@schwarzgallery.com
- Website