A new exhibit in Washington, D.C., features portraits by Gilbert Stuart, best known for creating the painting of George Washington from which the image on the dollar is taken. Historian Gordon ...

John Neal, an early-nineteenth-century writer and art critic, wrote, “Though a better likeness of him were shown to us, we should reject it; for, the only idea that we now have of George Washington, ...

HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON By Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf, 320 pp., $26.95) GILBERT STUARD (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Everyone keeps wondering why over the past decade or so there ...

Stuart’s story requires a longer journey, back to April 11, 1796, when he received a letter from President George Washington. He was the pre-eminent U.S. portrait artist of his day.

GEORGE WASHINGTON stares down from the rotunda of the Capitol Building, ... notable among them are a life mask from 1785 made by Jean-Antoine Houdon and one of Gilbert Stuart’s portraits.

George Washington, 22 Feb 1732 - 14 Dec 1799 Addressee Gilbert Stuart, 3 Dec 1755 - 9 Jul 1828 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Date April 11, 1796 Object number ...

In March 1793, Gilbert Stuart crossed the North Atlantic for the express purpose of painting President George Washington, the supreme prize of the age for any ambitious portrait artist.

George Washington (Vaughan portrait), 1795, oil on canvas The portrait after restoration. Gilbert Stuart painted this portrait of 63-year-old President George Washington in the then capital of ...

Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, (1795). Courtesy Christie's. A rare portrait of george washington has been sold by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for $2.8 million, auctioned alongside ...