|
Gilbert Stuart American, 1755 - 1828 George Washington (Vaughan portrait), 1795 oil on canvas Overall: 73 x 60.5 cm (28 3/4 x 23 13/16 in.) framed: 100.3 x 87.3 cm (39 1/2 x 34 3/8 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1942.8.27 |
Object 3 of 5
| 1798 | Lavater, Johann Caspar. Essays on Physiognomy, designed to promote the Knowledge and Love of Mankind. Edited by Thomas Holloway. 3 vols. London, 1789-1798: 3:repro. between 434 and 435, 435. |
| 1834 | Dunlap 1834, 1:196-206. |
| 1846 | Lester, C. Edwards. The Artists of America. New York, 1846: 129-130. |
| 1855 | Tuckerman, Henry T. "Original Portraits of Washington." Putnam's Monthly 6 (October 1855): 345-347. |
| 1858 | Peale, Rembrandt. "Washington and his Portraits." Unpublished lecture, Charles Roberts Autograph Letters Collection, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, in Miller 1980 (fiche VIB/19F11-20B14: 16, 20-21), and reprinted in Eisen 1932, I:297-323. |
| 1860 | Custis, George Washington Parke. Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington. Edited by Benson J. Lossing. New York, 1860: 520-523, 628. |
| 1867 | Tuckerman 1867, 115-120, 630. |
| 1870 | Catalogue of Pictures, Statuary, and Bronzes in the Gallery of Joseph Harrison, Jr., Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1870: 6-7, no. 22. |
| 1876 | Stuart, Jane. "The Stuart Portraits of Washington." Scribner's Monthly 12, no. 3 (July 1876): 369, 373-374. |
| 1879 | Mason 1879, 87-91. |
| 1880 | Hart, Charles Henry. "Mason's Life of Stuart." The American Art Review 1 (March 1880): 220-221. |
| 1880 | Museum of Fine Arts [Boston]. "Portraits Painted by Stuart...taken from Mason's Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart." Exhibition of Portraits Painted by Gilbert Stuart. Boston, 1880: 25, no cat. number. |
| 1882 | Johnston, Elizabeth Bryant. Original Portraits of Washington, including Statues, Monuments and Medals. Boston, 1882: 91-93. |
| 1889 | Hart, Charles Henry. "Original Portraits of Washington." Century Magazine 37, no. 6 (April 1889): 865. |
| 1892 | Bowen, Clarence Winthrop. The History of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States. New York, 1892: repro. opp. 12, 544-545. |
| 1904 | Hart, Charles Henry. Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington. New York, 1904: 126, no. 259. |
| 1922 | Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "Gilbert Stuart's First Portrait of Washington from Life; The Vaughan Picture Painted in 1795." Art in America 11, no. 1 (December 1922): frontispiece, 43-45. |
| 1923 | Eisen, Gustavus A. "Stuart's Three Washingtons." International Studio 76, no. 309 (February 1923): 386-394, repro. |
| 1923 | Fielding 1923, 83, 85-87, 114, no. 1, repro. frontispiece and opp. 114. |
| 1926 | Park 1926, 845, no. 1, repro. |
| 1928 | Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered. |
| 1930 | Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of George Washington." Art in America 18, no. 6 (October 1930): 261-270, repro. |
| 1930 | Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, ed. A Memorial Volume of Virginia Historical Portraiture, 1585-1830. Richmond, 1930: 215, repro. between 16 and 17, opp. 216. |
| 1931 | Morgan & Fielding 1931, 223, 225-232, 236, 250, 347-352, repro. opp. 224 and opp. 250. |
| 1932 | Eisen, Gustavus A. Portraits of Washington. 3 vols. New York, 1932: 1:plate III, 7-11, 21, 35-37, 39. |
| 1932 | Whitley 1932, 93-95. |
| 1939 | Decatur, Stephen. "Stuart's First Life Portrait of Washington." Antiques 35 (February 1939): 70-72, repro. |
| 1944 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 142, color repro. |
| 1949 | Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 138, repro. |
| 1963 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 321, repro. |
| 1964 | Mount 1964, 186-195, 378. |
| 1966 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:384, color repro. |
| 1967 | Richardson, Edgar P. "Portraits of Washington, 1795-1796." In Gilbert Stuart: Portraitist of the Young Republic, 1755-1828. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1967: 25-30. |
| 1970 | American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 106, repro. |
| 1972 | Wainwright, Nicholas B. "Joseph Harrison Jr., a forgotten art collector." Antiques 102 (October 1972): 660-668, color repro., plate I. |
| 1975 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 387, color repro. |
| 1980 | Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 55, repro. |
| 1980 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 236, repro. |
| 1981 | Miller et al. 1983 |
| 1984 | Evans, Dorinda. "Gilbert Stuart: Two Recent Discoveries." American Art Journal 16, no. 3 (Summer 1984): 85-88, repro. |
| 1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 383, no. 542, color repro. |
| 1988 | Wilmerding 1988 Am MAsterpiece, 58, repro. |
| 1989 | Verheyen, Egon. "The Most exact representation of the Original': Remarks on Portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Rembrandt Peale." In Multiple Originals, Copies, and Reproductions. CASVA,Symposium Papers 7,Washington, D.C.,1989: 127-139 |
| 1992 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 349, repro. |
| 1992 | National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 220, repro. |
| 1993 | Evans, Dorinda. "Survival and Transformation: The Colonial Portrait in the Federal Era." In The Portrait in Eighteenth-Century America. Edited by Ellen G. Miles. Newark, London, and Toronto, 1993: 130, repro. 132, 133. |
| 1995 | Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 201-206, color repro. 203. |
| « | back to gallery | » | continue tour |