Are sitting on the desk. His wifes painting is a classic. Its Gilbert Stuart at his very best, i think. Lets walk along this wall. This was another stuart portrait painted while he was new york before he ever went to philadelphia to paint washington. This is henrietta. So many times these were done as a pair. Her husband was a newly appointed ambassador to the u. S. And they were newlyweds. This was painted right before they returned to england. An interesting thing about stuart as a painter is that he could be very slow. What henrietta wrote in her diary the thing about stuart, hes remarkable for being dilatory. Its amazing that paint draws so slowly in this country. Many people noted that. Stuart sometimes came through very quickly, but other times he just didnt even finish a work. He was very mercurial. This is such a beautifully done portrait with the color harmonies that stuart used for her. The beautiful linings and the peach and the way her bonnet is lined and the bow and the bo
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But she has the beads of the garnet wound around her fingers. Its a lovely portrait. Youll see as we go through the galleries that many times the husband and wife were painted or children, son and daughterinlaw were painted. These were family portraits or efforts to portray the whole family. I think they would have been the only way of recording a likeness because photography wasnt available yet. So they were there and probably hung in homes unless they were in some cases commissioned for political like for a state house or Something Like that, but these are personal that were looking. Copley lived on beacon hill in boston. Hed had a quite lucrative business as a portrait painter. This is one of the last ones actually, i do remember that he painted her husband as well, mr. Adam babcock. These paintings were done in 1774, which were some of the last ones copley painted before he left boston for europe. He had a lucrative practice. 1774, he knew torreys and he knew patriots. He didnt see
Massachusetts merchant and political figure. He was 82 when this was painted. Copleys shown him just as he was. Youll notice the way hes painted the face and the hands is a little different. This is 12 years later. Copleys changed his technique, so the hands are painted with al little bit more fluid paint and in the face as well. Its easier to show the details, so copley is changing and developing as he goes along through his career in boston. Il so copleys portraits of men po show you these very substantial realistic figures that look ial comfortable in their setting an you have a sense that they had, these two men especially, that , theyve had successful lives and theyre in a good place. His paintings of women sometimee are just so ravishingly beautiful in their attention to fabric and texture and the o beauty of the skin, like this portrait of Anne Fairchild bowler. Ms. Metcalfe bowler. This was painted in 1763, so about the same time he was proac painting epes sergeant, but its a t
The only filter is what we might bring to them. If we look carefully and try to understand them, i think theyre a great source for understanding who the people were and what life was like at that time. This was the first of a twopart look at american hor traits at the National Gallery of art. You can view this and all other American History tv programs at our website, cspan. Org history. Join American History tv on saturday, november 7th for tours and live interviews from the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. Well explore the u. S. S. Tang submarine experience, the road to berlin, and the africanamerican story. And well take your questions for historians joining us from new orleans throughout the day. World war ii 70 years later live from the National World War Ii Museum saturday, november 7th beginning at 11 00 a. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan 3. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Located on the National M
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