Title: Gilbert Stuart /
Authors: McLanathan, Richard; Stuart, Gilbert,; National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
Date: 1986
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Physical description: 159 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: The life and works of the father of American portraiture.
Contents: "An only son, handsome and forward" -- "Pitching headlong into misery" -- "Suddenly lifted into fame" -- "The Vandyck of the time" -- "A pre-eminent fame for identity" -- "I expect to make a fortune" -- "The only man who ever took a correct likeness of Washington" -- "The celebrated Stuart, of Boston".
Notes: "Times Mirror books"--Verso t.p. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Portrait painters--United States--Biography.; Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828.