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)