American Paintings of the Eighteenth CenturyThe National Gallery's collection of eighteenth-century American paintings includes some of its greatest treasures and most beloved national icons. John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark, Gilbert Stuart's The Skater (Portrait of William Granti) and George Washington (Vaughan portrait)--as well as his portraits of the first five presidents of the United States, the so-called Gibbs-Coolidge portraits--and Edward Savage's Washington Family. Ellen G. Miles, curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, presents new research culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents that offer a fresh perspective on the artists and sitters, as well as new insight into the paintings. (This publication is made possible by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation). |
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Unknown American Artists | 362 |
Bibliography | 371 |
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Exhibitions | 394 |
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A.W. Mellon Adams American Paintings Amory April areas artist background Benjamin West blue Boston British brown Charles Charles Henry Hart Charles Willson Peale coat Collection Technical Notes color repro Copley's daughter death discolored dress Earl edges Elizabeth England English engraving Erffa and Staley face Figure Gallery of Art Gallery's George Washington Gibbs Gilbert Stuart gray hair Henry impasto imprimatura James Jefferson Coolidge John Singleton Copley John Trumbull Knoedler layer letter London Macbeth Gallery Massachusetts Mellon Collection Technical Museum of Art National Gallery National Portrait Gallery NGA library Notes EGM Oil on canvas Otis Park Peale Philadelphia 1928 picture plain-weave fabric Provenance Prown recorded References retouching Richard Yates Robert Royal Academy Samuel Shark sitter's sold Stuart's portrait Tappan thin Thomas Thornton tion trait Trumbull Union League Club unnumbered varnish was removed Virginia Watson West's wet-in-wet wife William wrote X-radiograph Yates York