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
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Books & Publications (286)
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Home for the Holidays: A Matthew Harris Jouett Family Portrait Exhibition (Jack Jouett House, Versailles, Kentucky) (Exhibition catalog)
2010
Meador, Joel; Steven Menefee, Warren Payne, Steve Tipton
44 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors A Compendium of Favorite Articles from the First Twelve Issues
2006
The Vose Family
65 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum)
2005
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell
573 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Gilbert Stuart
2004
Barratt, C.R. & Miles, E.G.
352 pages (color)
Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, US Department of State (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Fairbanks and Serfaty
232 pages (color)
George Washington: A National Treasure
2003
National Portrait Gallery
104 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes Tenth Anniversary Issue Art and Collecting in America: An Illustrated Timeline
2002
Vose, Marcia L. (editor)
37 pages (color)
Boston Art Club: 1855-1950
2000
Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn
88 pages (color)
Portraits of the Presidents: The National Portrait Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Voss, Frederick
144 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
The Genius of Gilbert Stuart
1999
Evans, Dorinda
216 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art
1995
Adams, H. and Johnson, K.
192 pages (color)
On Desperate Seas A Biography of Gilbert Stuart
1995
Flexner, James Thomas
205 pages
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Miles, Ellen G
419 pages
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy
1992
Danly, Susan
104 pages (color)
Art & Empire The Politics of Ethnicity in th US Capitol 1815-1860
1992
Fryd, Vivien Green
273 pages
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
Meet Your Neighbors New England Portraits, Painters/1790-1850 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Larkin, Jack (others)
143 pages (color)
Hidden Treasures American Paintings from Florida Colllections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Leeds, Valerie Ann
72 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1)
1991
Detroit Institute of the Arts
340 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
112 pages
American Views Essays on American Art
1991
Wilmerding, John
357 pages (color)
Masterpieces of American Painting
1991
Wilson, John
34 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture Sterling & Francine Clark Institute
1990
Conrads, Martha C
219 pages (color)
American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum
1990
Eldredge, Charles C
135 pages (color)
American Masters Selections from the Gerald Peters Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gerald Peters Gallery
114 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Schall, Ellen (others)
164 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
1989
La Cour, Donna Ward
196 pages
A Permanent Legacy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (150 Works)
1989
Marzio, Peter C (intro)
366 pages (color)
The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran
1989
Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville)
254 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts
1988
Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor)
328 pages (color)
New World Visions of Household Gods and Sacred Places American Art, 1650-1914
1988
Scully, Vincent
183 pages (color)
Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art
1988
Vlach, John Michael
206 pages (color)
Adventure and Inspiration American Artists in Other Lands (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Ward, Meredith (essay)
172 pages (color)
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago
1988
Wood, James N/Katherine Lee
168 pages (color)
Federal Philadelphia 1785-1825 The Athens of the Western World (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Garvan, Beatrice
96 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Gilbert Stuart (Exhibition catalog)
1986
McLanathan, Richard
159 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Art
1986
Munson Williams-Proctor Inst
101 pages (color)
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1986
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
148 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
1986
Richardson, Edgar P
157 pages (color)
Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1986
Salinger, Margaretta
200 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Adams, Henry
120 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works
1984
Bromberg, Anne R
219 pages (color)
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure
1984
Harding, Jonathan P
185 pages
Collecting Phoenix Art Museum, 1957-1984
1984
Phoenix Art Museum
45 pages (color)
American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference
1984
Reaves, Wendy Wick
285 pages
The Great Boston Collectors Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts
1984
Troyen, Carol/Pamela Tabbaa
151 pages (color)
National Gallery of Art, Washington New and Revised Edition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Walker, John
606 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
1983
Brown, Milton W
240 pages (color)
The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Faison, S Lane
1,983 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays)
351 pages (color)
The Art Museums of New England
1982
Faison, S Lane Jr
490 pages
Hudson Valley People Albany to Yonkers, 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Faison, S Lane/Sally Mills
63 pages
American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
100 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
National Gallery of Art: Washington
1982
Walker, John and J. Carter Brown
160 pages (color)
Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries
1981
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
163 pages
America in Print 1796-1941 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
128 pages (color)
A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors
1981
Kennedy Galleries
81 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts
228 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Larousse Dictionary of Painters (Americans included in world listing)
1981
Smith, Alistair (intro)
467 pages (color)
A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art
1981
Williams, William James
256 pages (color)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1980
Hibbard, Howard
592 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of Painting Indianapolis Museum of Art
1980
Janson, Anthony/A Ian Fraser
295 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980
Troyen, Carol
204 pages (color)
American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Paintings The Landon Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Mint Museum
83 pages (color)
A Gallery of Presidents
1979
Pachter, Marc
95 pages
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum
1979
Teitz, Richard Stuart
118 pages
The Lure of the Great West
1978
Getlein, Frank
352 pages (color)
Art About Art
1978
Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall
176 pages (color)
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Age of the Revolution and Early Republic in Fine and Decorative Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Kennedy Galleries/Israel Sack
120 pages
Nineteenth-Century Painters and Painting/A Dictionary
1977
Norman, Geraldine
240 pages (color)
American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show
1977
Prown, Jules David; John Walker (Intro)
133 pages (color)
American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present
1977
Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose
277 pages (color)
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
Collection of American Art Randolph-Macon Women's College
1977
Williams, Mary Frances
211 pages (color)
Heritage and Horizon American Painting 1776-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
80 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
19th Century American Portraits from Iowa Collections
1976
Demetrion, James T.
4 pages
Art in the United States Capitol
1976
Editor for Architect of the Capitol
0 pages (color)
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Marcus, George H. (Editor)
166 pages (color)
American Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Montgomery, Charles/Pat Kane
320 pages (color)
American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Richardson, Edgar P
247 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
200 Jahre Amerikanische Malerei 1776-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
140 pages (color)
A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan
1976
Tracy, Berry and Howat, John
82 pages (color)
A Panorama of American Painting The John J McDonough Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bullard, E John
119 pages (color)
The Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
The Gift of American Naive Painting 48 Masterpieces, W Chrysler Garbisch Collection
1975
Schaeffer, Clifford W
68 pages
One Hundred/An Exhibition to Celebrate the Centenial Year (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Smith College
83 pages
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 pages (color)
City of Independence Views of Philadelphia Before 1800
1975
Snyder, Martin P
304 pages (color)
First Flowers of Our Wilderness (University of Arizona Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Steadman, William E
143 pages (color)
Seascape and the American Imagination (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Stein, Roger B
144 pages (color)
To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art
1975
Taylor, Joshua C
117 pages (color)
The Story of American Painting
1974
Davidson, Abraham A
168 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago