What is the best-known painting by Gilbert Stuart?Read the answer
George Washington (Il Ritratto dell'Athenaeum) (1796), National Portrait Gallery, Londra. George Washington (8) (1820) and George Washington (Il Ritratto Lansdowne) (1796) follow.
What age was Gilbert Stuart when George Washington (Il Ritratto dell'Athenaeum) was painted?Read the answer
Gilbert Stuart, born in 1755, was 41 years old: George Washington (Il Ritratto dell'Athenaeum) dates from 1796.
What are the 10 most famous paintings by Gilbert Stuart?Read the answer
George Washington (Il Ritratto dell'Athenaeum), George Washington (8), George Washington (Il Ritratto Lansdowne), George Washington (1732-1799), LL.D. 1781, George Washington, Ammiraglio Sir Charles Morice Pole (1757–1830), Bt, Thomas Robinson (1738–1786), 2° Barone Grantham, La signora Aaron Lopez e suo figlio Jushua, George Washington and George Washington. Each canvas in the ranking above comes with its year and its museum.
How many works did Gilbert Stuart paint in all?Read the answer
349 works by Gilbert Stuart are in our catalogue, dated 1773 to 1827.
Where can I see Gilbert Stuart's most famous canvases?Read the answer
Mostly in Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Filadelfia); the list above names each museum and its canvases.
When did Gilbert Stuart paint the best-loved canvases?Read the answer
In 1790s, which gave 35 of the 100 works on this page, George Washington (Il Ritratto dell'Athenaeum) among them.
Which are Gilbert Stuart's earliest and latest famous canvases?Read the answer
The earliest canvas here is La signora Aaron Lopez e suo figlio Jushua (1773); the latest is John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) (1827).
What did Gilbert Stuart paint most often?Read the answer
Uomo (34), Cravatta bianca (22) and Sfondo scuro (20), across the 100 works on this page.
Which medium did Gilbert Stuart paint in most often?Read the answer
Olio su tela, used in 47 of the 100 works on this page.
Which movement is Gilbert Stuart's painting part of?Read the answer
Neoclassicismo, as the canvases on this page show.
Which Gilbert Stuart canvases hang at the Harvard Art Museums?Read the answer
The Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge holds 10 of the works on this page, among them William Porter Jr. (1788-1818), Fisher Ames (1758-1808) and Joseph Coolidge (1747-1820).
Can I buy a reproduction of a Gilbert Stuart canvas?Read the answer
Yes. Every painting on this page can be ordered from its own page as an oil reproduction painted by hand, or as a fine art print, in the size you choose.
