Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.113 |
Title |
Self-Portrait at 24 |
Artist |
Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828 |
Date |
1778 |
Description |
Considered the first major leap in his artistic technique, the Self-Portrait was painted while Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) was under the tutelage of Benjamin West in England. Stuart gave this work to his childhood friend Benjamin Waterhouse in 1780. Portrait. Head and shoulders, with his head leaning forward, turned three-quarters to the right, with his gray-blue eyes towards the spectator. He has dark reddish-brown hair and his complexion is ruddy. He wears a large black hat (a so-called "Rubens hat"), and his coat is very dark brown, as is the background. (Park 2:718) |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-42.5 W-32.4 cm |
Credit line |
Bequest of Louisa Lee Waterhouse |
Provenance |
1864, January - Bequest of Louisa Lee Waterhouse |
Inscription Location |
on back of original canva |
Inscriptions and Marks |
G. Stuart. Pictor, se ipso pinxit A.D. 1778 aetatis suae 24 |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
Waterhouse, Louisa Lee Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828 |
Notes |
Formerly #1. Painting done while Stuart was working in the studio of Benjamin West in London. 1943 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; 1949 (April) Art Institute of Chicago "From Colony to Nation - An Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812"; 1954 (May) Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., Washington Square Branch, Newport "Works by Newport Artists"; 1957 (14 April) St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wickford, Rhode Island "1707 - 250th Anniversary - 1957"; 1967 (1July - 20Aug) National Gallery of Art; (9 Sept-15 Oct) Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Providence; (1 Nov-3 Dec) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: "Gilbert Stuart: Portraitist of the Young Republic" ; 1969-70 (Oct-May) Wichita Art Museum traveling exhibition "American Paintings from Newport": Wilmington, Delaware; San Francisco, California; Wichita, Kansas; Cincinnati, Ohio; 1970 (8 Feb-6 March) Knoedler & Co., New York City "What is American in American Art?"; 1974 (1 Feb-15 March) National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., "American Self-Portraits, 1670-1973"; 1979 (20 April-20 Nov) National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. "Return to Albion: Americans in England 1760-1940"; 1980-81 (16 Oct-4 Jan) National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; (30 Jan-19 April) The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: "Benjamin West and his American Students"; 1992 (4 July-13 Sept) Newport Art Museum "NewPortraits"; 2005 (Oct. 18- Jan 16) "Gilbert Stuart" Metropolitan Museum of Art; 2005 (March 27-July 31) "Gilbert Stuart" National Gallery of Art. |
Related Publications |
Annual Reports 1897 (9), 1952-53, 1953-54 (24), 1966-67 (21) and 1956-57 (23); Minutes 14 June 1897 and 14 Jan 1930, 11 Nov 1930, and 8 Sept 1931; ACC; Park (2:718) ; 1877 wood-engraving by Jane Stuart in "Scribner's Magazine" 13 (640); 1918 "A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States" by Dunlap 1(192); 1925 (July) International Studio (295); 1926 "Gilbert Stuart" by Park (4:493); 1930 National Academy of Design ; 1964 "Gilbert Stuart, a Biography by Mount" (between 128-129); 1967 (10 September) "Gilbert Stuart Comes Home" by Swan, Providence Sunday |