Old Boston, new ways Nov 15, 2009
There is a wide array of newspapers and artwork, too, with paintings by Gilbert Stuart and John Singer Sargent and sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Houdon. The library had several quarters before moving to its current home in 1849 at 10 1/2 Beacon St., a neo-Palladian building overlooking the Old Granary Burying Grounds. (Boston Globe)
Bring back middlebrow! Oct 18, 2009
Who knew that the American portrait artist Gilbert Stuart experienced the same migraines more than two centuries ago. Stuart is best known for his portraits of George Washington, and, as it happens, it was precisely these that most interested the Chinese. (Boston Globe)
Early American portraits on display at Winterthur Jul 26, 2009
A painting by Gilbert Stuart of former President George Washington ... The exhibit showcases portraits by some of the most famous artists of the era, including John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Giants enthralled by White House visit Jun 4, 2009
They learned that, to ensure authenticity, artist Gilbert Stuart intentionally misspelled the word "State" as "Sate" in the famed portrait of George Washington saved by Dolley Madison. This wasn't just a civics lesson. (MLB.com -- San Francisco Giants)
Big show-off May 27, 2009
You'll spot paintings by John Singleton Copley (portrait of Mrs. William Turner, 1767, below), Gilbert Stuart, John Singer Sargent, and Annibale Carracci. Sculpture is represented by Horatio Greenough, Thomas Crawford, and William Morris Hunt. (Boston Globe)
GW's hidden treasures Mar 9, 2009
The most well-known is the life-size "Munro-Lenox" painting of Washington by Gilbert Stuart circa 1800, now in archival storage. Another is the 1824 Porthole Portrait by Rembrandt Peale which can be found in University President Steven Knapp's home at the F Street House, along with other artifacts like a set of oak furniture that once belonged to Ulysses S. Grant. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
George Washington posed here Mar 1, 2009
Athenaeum Portrait,'' 1796, by Gilbert Stuart ... And the snuff-addicted eccentric Gilbert Stuart was determined to understand his subject as no one had before. (Boston Globe)
