Lawrence Reid Yates

Gilbert Stuart, Walter Robertson, Lawrence Reid Yates, ca. 1794, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 1956.1.3
Copied Walter Robertson, Gilbert Stuart, Lawrence Reid Yates, ca. 1794, watercolor on ivory, sight 3 x 2 38 in. (7.56.0 cm) oval, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 1956.1.3
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Artwork Details

Title
Lawrence Reid Yates
Artists
Copy after Gilbert Stuart
Date
ca. 1794
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sight 3 x 2 38 in. (7.56.0 cm) oval
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
Mediums
Mediums Description
watercolor on ivory
Classifications
Keywords
  • Portrait male — Yates, Lawrence Reid — bust
Object Number
1956.1.3

Artwork Description

Lawrence Reid Yates (died 1796) was a New York merchant who had his portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart. Walter Robertson, who came to the United States at Stuart’s urging, often copied in miniature his mentor’s paintings, and this image of Yates is such a copy. The full-scale portrait hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and was painted in 1793 or 1794. A miniature of Richard Yates’s wife, by an unknown artist, is also in this collection [see 1956.1.2].