Artist

Gilbert Stuart

born Saunderstown, Rhode Island Colony (now North Kingstown, RI) 1755-died Boston, MA 1828
Also known as
  • Gilbert Charles Stuart
Born
Saunderstown, Rhode Island Colony,
Died
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Active in
  • London, England
  • Dublin, Ireland
  • Washington, District of Columbia, United States
  • Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States
Biography

Born in Rhode Island, trained in London, worked in the U.S. and the British Isles. An ingenious, insightful, but unusually moneyminded artist whose portraits of George Washington (especially the image appearing on the $1 bill) have become part of the American heritage.

Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)