Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart is best known as a portraitist of the early American republic, whose sitters included statesmen, merchants, and naval officers rendered with a plain, direct realism in oil. The collection gathers twenty-six of his works, dominated by oil on canvas alongside a painted glass plaque and a single oil on wood. Most depict figures such as George Washington, Albert Gallatin, and Commodore Isaac Hull, with the sheets dated by the Met across a span from 1776 to 1820, including impressions up to that later year.
26 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
Plaque of George Washington
1776–1830 · Painted glass
Captain John Gell
1785 · Oil on canvas
Thomas Smith
1785–87 · Oil on canvas
John Shaw
1793 · Oil on canvas
Josef de Jaudenes y Nebot
1794 · Oil on canvas
Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes
1794 · Oil on canvas
William Kerin Constable
1796 · Oil on canvas
Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles
1798 · Oil on canvas
Commodore Isaac Hull
1813–14 · Oil on canvas
Mrs. Andrew Sigourney
Ca. 1820 · Oil on canvas
George Washington (begun 1795)
begun 1795 · Oil on canvas
Man in a Green Coat
ca. 1779–85 · Oil on canvas
George Heathcote
ca. 1785 · Oil on canvas
James DeLancey
ca. 1785 · Oil on canvas
Portrait of the Artist
ca. 1786 · Oil on canvas
Horatio Gates
ca. 1793–94 · Oil on canvas
Matthew Clarkson
ca. 1794 · Oil on canvas
Joseph Anthony Jr.
ca. 1795–98 · Oil on canvas
Mrs. Joseph Anthony Jr. (Henrietta Hillegas)
ca. 1795–98 · Oil on canvas
John R. Murray
ca. 1800 · Oil on canvas
Albert Gallatin
ca. 1803 · Oil on canvas
George Washington (ca. 1803)
ca. 1803 · Oil on canvas
David Sears, Jr.
ca. 1815 · Oil on canvas
Henry Rice
ca. 1815 · Oil on wood
Washington Allston
ca. 1819–20 · Oil on canvas
James Monroe
ca. 1820–22 · Oil on canvas