The 73 Artworks of Gilbert Stuart Newton

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Gilbert Stuart Newton - Matthew ClarksonMatthew ClarksonGilbert Stuart Newton

Like his father before him, Matthew Clarkson was prominent in the political and commercial affairs of New York. He embarked early on a military career, distinguishing himself at the age of nineteen in the Battle of Saratoga. After his retirement from active duty about 1788, he followed the family tr...

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Gilbert Stuart Newton - James MonroeJames MonroeGilbert Stuart Newton

The fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, was a Virginian who enjoyed the advantages of being the disciple and political protégé of Thomas Jefferson. Before becoming president, he had held many diplomatic posts, including service as ambassador to France and to England. The year after t...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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Gilbert Stuart Newton - Albert GallatinAlbert GallatinGilbert Stuart Newton

Albert Gallaton (1761-1849) was born into an aristocratic Swiss family in Geneva. In 1780, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania, where he launched his political career. In 1794, he was elected to the first of three terms in the House of Representatives, where he founded the ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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Gilbert Stuart Newton - Joseph Anthony Jr.Joseph Anthony Jr.Gilbert Stuart Newton

A native of Newport, Rhode Island, and Stuart’s first cousin, Joseph Anthony was trained as a silversmith and jeweler, his family business. Anthony moved to Philadelphia about 1783 where his trade thrived, and he married Henrietta Hillegas of that city shortly thereafter. This picture, painted in St...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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Gilbert Stuart Newton - Man in a Green CoatMan in a Green CoatGilbert Stuart Newton

This portrait seems to have been begun as a rectangle and then changed to an oval format. It is one of Stuart’s most virtuosic paintings, clearly from his first years in London, but both its date and the identity of the sitter are unknown. The vague, brushy treatment of the background has raised the...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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Gilbert Stuart Newton - Mrs. Andrew SigourneyMrs. Andrew SigourneyGilbert Stuart Newton

Elizabeth Williams (1765–1843) was the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Bell and Henry Howell Williams. In 1797, she married Andrew Sigourney, a prominent Bostonian. Over the course of his life, Sigourney served as treasurer of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, treasurer of the town of Boston...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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Gilbert Stuart Newton - George WashingtonGeorge WashingtonGilbert Stuart Newton

This portrait of President Washington, called the Gibbs-Channing-Avery portrait, is one of eighteen similar works known as the Vaughan group. The first of this type, presumably painted from life and then copied in all the others, originally belonged to Samuel Vaughan, a London merchant living in Phi...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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Gilbert Stuart Newton - James MadisonJames MadisonGilbert Stuart Newton

Shown from the chest up, a cleanshaven man with pale, rosy skin and curled white hair looks off to our right against a dark, olive-green curtain in the background of this vertical portrait painting. His shoulders are angled slightly to our right, and he looks into the distance with blue eyes. His ri...


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