Gift to the American People from asrew mellon who served treasury secretary until 1932. Up next week visit the museum to learn about early american portrait painting and work of John Singleton copley. Dianne hello. We are standing in a room full of portraits i John Singleton copley, americas most important colonial portrait painter. I think as a look around the you can think back to the words of john adams 1817 who said when you see his portraits, you want a discourse with him, you want to asking questions and want toanswers you ask him questions and receive answers. In the early part of the 18th century, american early painters made ambitious but tentative efforts to capture the likeness of people on canvas because portraiture was really the only way to do that. It was the most type the most important type of painting in the colonies. There was a great flourishing of activity with johnson will copley that became with John Singleton copley. Are two of the first highlevel portrait paint
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National galleria of art was a gift to the American People from financier Andrew Mellon who served as treasury secretary until 1932. Up next, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait painting and the work of John Singleton copley. Dianne hello. I am dianne stevens. We are standing in a room full of portraits by John Singleton copley, americas most important colonial portrait painter. I think as we look around the room, you can think back to the words of john adams, 1817, who said when you see his portraits, you want a discourse with him. You want to ask him questions and receive answers. Let me give you some background. In the early part of the 18th century, early american painters without much background and training made ambitious but tentative efforts to capture likenesses on canvas because portraiture was really the only way to do that. It was the most important type of painting in the colonies. There was a great flourishing of activity that became elevated to a l
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
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
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