American Portraiture Flashcards
Gilbert Stuart 1755-1828
Selfportrait 1778
- Born in Rohode Island
- 1775 England, 1777 with West
- the artist myth. Drinking, gambling
- active in Ireland 1787-93
- the best portrait painter of the time, and he enjoyed portraits
- He was talketive and funny. People enjoyed sitting for him
- really understand color & composition
Portraits of washington:
Vaughn - facing right
Antheneum - facing left, unfinished
Lansdowne - facing left, standing, arm reaches out
Gilbert Stuart
The Skater/William Grant, 1782
- shows dynamic/motion =new style
- the portrayed is part of the surrounding
- a real/existing background
- upper body still in sitter pose
- monocromatic=the actual color of a winter day
Gilbert Stuart,
John Singleton Copley, 1784
Gilbert Stuart
Joshua Raynolds 1784
- Head of the Royal academy
Gilbert Stuart
John Frizgibbon, 1789-90
- Irish mayor as a royalty. To show off
Gilbert Stuart
Richard Yates 1793
- early federal style portrait
- informal, psychologically engaging
- business letters = literate
Gilbert Stuart,
Catherine Brass Yates, 1793-4
Gilbert Stuart
Washington 1795
- Vaughn - facing right
- no attire or extras = a federal man rather than royal
- focus on him, not the background
Gilbert Stuart,
George Washington, 1795
- Vaughn - facing right
Gilbert Stuart
Washington 1796
- Antheneaum
- Used on the dollar bill
- Saved the painting to produce more similar once
Gilbert Stuart
Washington 1796
- Lansdowne
- outreaching arm
- objects of material culture = wealth & educated
- ship = trade
- scrolls = the constitution
- inc feather = signing of independence
John Vanderlyn
George Washington, 1832
Ralph Earl 1751-1801
- Studies with West. elected to royal academy
- moves to connecticut
- changes from high style english to more conservative naive style, because his clients wanted it Ralph Earl
Elijah Boardman 1789
- aristocratic high style.
- Full length = expensive = wealth
- fabrics in background = made his wealth from importing fabrics
- books = educated
- accountbooks/feather pen = business
Ralph Earl,
Daniel Boardman, 1789
- Stans before his landownings in Gainbough, Connecticut
Ralph Earl
Esther Boardman, 1789
Ralph Earl
Mrs. James Watson & Son, 1788
John Wesley Jarvis,
Mrs. Robert Dickey (Anne Brown), ca. 1807-10.
John Wesley Jarvis
Andrew Jackson 1819 (president 1829-37)
William Dunlap,
Self Portrait, ca. 1825
- Miniature, watercolor on ivory
- a pioneer of American theater
