Lawrence Reid Yates

Walter Robertson, Gilbert Stuart, Lawrence Reid Yates, ca. 1794, watercolor on ivory, sight 3 x 2 ³⁄₈ in. (7.5 x 6.0 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: Walter Robertson
Copy after Gilbert Stuart
Date: ca. 1794
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: sight 3 x 2 ³⁄₈ in. (7.5 x 6.0 cm) oval
Credit Line: Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
Mediums: watercolor
Mediums Description: watercolor on ivory
Classifications: Painting
Miniature
Subjects: Portrait male — Yates, Lawrence Reid — bust
Object Number: 1956.1.3
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/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].