![]() The shaping of the head, lace shirt ruffle and background all suggest that the portrait was executed during Stuart’s years in Philadelphia and prior to his move to Washington D.C. Likely first owned by Colonel Thomas Lloyd Moore (1759-1813), a hero of the Revolution, the work can be documented as early as 1841 in the Willing family of Philadelphia and later descended in an aristocratic English family. Remarkably well preserved, the portrait is further distinguished by its history. The original canvas was painted from life in 1796 and details of composition and execution indicate that the work offered here was painted within the following few years. Gilbert Stuart painted over seventy five replicas and, disseminated by countless other portraitists and engravers, including the designers of the US one dollar bill, the likeness remains today the primary image of America’s first President. ![]() … the only idea that we now have of George Washington, is associated with Stuart ’ s Washington.Īn early rendition displaying the artist’s signature virtuosity, this Athenaeum-type portrait is a particularly significant survival of the most recognizable and oft-reproduced image of George Washington. ![]() Phillips, Son & Neale, 21, Arlington Street, Piccadilly, W.: A Catalogue of the Valuable Contents of the Residence, 16-18 December 1912, lots 597, 623, 624, 626, 630-632. Provo, UT, USA: Operations, Inc., 2015.Ģ2 Philadelphia Museum of Art, acc. ![]() Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993. Carter, dated 8 June 1840 (misfiled as 1849) in. 129.Ģ0 For Bates’ travel dates, see National Gazette, 27 April 1841, p. 195-196.ġ9 Eliza Cope Harrison, Best Companions: Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton (Columbia, South Carolina, 2001), p. Conrads, American Painting and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute (New York, 1990), pp. 177-178.ġ7 Political and Commercial Register, 31 August 1813, p. 3, 18, 19.ġ4 Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1:365, 17 September 1805.ġ5 A History of the Insurance Company of North America (Philadelphia, 1885), pp. 45, 46, 51, 53 see also Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works (New York, 1926), vol. Rasmusson, “Democratic Environment – Aristocratic Aspiration,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 90 (1966), p. 27 Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Republican Court or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York, 1856), pp. Keith, The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1883), pp. Provo, UT, USA: Operations, Inc., 2015.ġ1 Charles P. Long, “Judge James Moore and Major James Moore, of Chester County, Pennsylvania,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 12:4 (January 1889), p. 301 this may also refer to another man of the same name, see W.S. 27.ĩ “Extracts from Washington’s Diary, Kept while Attending the Constitutional Convention of 1787,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (October 1887), p. 157.Ĩ Thompson Westcott, The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1877), p. Willing to unspecified recipient, 12th May 1841, the John Morgan Hill Research Files, Frick Art Reference Library Archives, Box 6, folder 34 Miles, p. 1867.303 Christie’s, New York,, lot 16 Sotheby’s New York, 2 December 2010, lot 3.Ħ Miles, pp. 97, 98 Dallas Auction Gallery, 5 November 2015, lot 20.ĥ New-York Historical Society, acc. Miles, Gilbert Stuart (New York, 2004), p. Miles, catalogue entry, in Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G.
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