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
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
He made 12 or 13 copies and then he got tired of doing that. And we have a van portrait not on view. We have one downstairs, which is another replica of that. For a while the gallery thought our van portrait might have been the original that stuart painted, but it is probably a very early copy because stuart wrote that he had rubbed that one out. In the midst of making replicas of the van portrait, he got another commission from Martha Washington for the portrait, x became the one that was used on the dollar bill and is the one that is modelled after. This one was a replica of the ahea athenium. This is the portrait of washington by stuart for that commission. Theyre not all exactly the same depending on stuart felt when he was doing the replica. Stuart said that washington was difficult to paint because he was so taciturn. Washington was not one to suffer that glib kind of conversation that stuart liked to partake in, so it was difficult to get washington. They said washington, when h
On the 1 bill. Dianne hello, i am Dianne Stephens from the National Gallery of art. John trumbull is an artist who is well known for his history paintings in america, not as much portraiture. He aspired to be a history painter and then, he eventually went to england and spent a couple of years with Benjamin West. Benjamin west was an amazing figure who welcomed almost every painter that we are going to talk about today. They learned the art of history painting, came back to the colonies this is his portrait of Alexander Hamilton who was aide. Gton it is interesting that here Alexander Hamilton is hanging next to Gilbert Stuarts portrait of john jay. Madison, john jay, and Alexander Hamilton wrote the federalist papers. Also, in 1794, john jay invited Alexander Hamilton to be a part of the Treaty Commission in london. So there is quite a connection between these two men. Who knew they would hang next to each other in the National Gallery . Looking at John Jay Reeves leads us to Gilbert
Proficiency. It was john jay. Gilbert stuarts purpose of coming to america was to paint washington and it was john jay who gave him his letter of introduction to washington whena he eventually went to philadelphia to paint washington, so it was john jay who really made that possible for him. Before going to washington, lets go into the next gallery. A before painting washington, as r said, stuart spent a year and a half in new york and painted many portraits while he was there. York and were lucky enough to have, oh, probably eight of them. He painted a whole series of a portraits for the yates pollock family. Two of them are hanging right here. Yates this is catherine brass yates. Y mrs. Richard yates. Stuart at his most amazing. Catherine yates was married to Richard Yates who hangs on the other side of the doorway over there. He had an importing company, soh they were import exporters of c, goods. They took to the west indies t cloth and flour and things like that. They transported