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[Gilbert Stuart, self-portrait, half-length, right profile, holding pencil or brush, drawing] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Gilbert Stuart, self-portrait, half-length, right profile, holding pencil or brush, drawing], [ca. 1783] — historic drawing
[Gilbert Stuart, self-portrait, half-length, right profile, holding pencil or brush, drawing], [ca. 1783]. Historic drawing from the Fine Art Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A profile self-portrait of the painter Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), shown from the waist up and turned to the right, with a pencil or brush in hand, this ink and wash drawing is attributed to him and dated ca. 1783. Stuart was working in London at the time, and the drawing shows him looking inward as an artist rather than as a sitter for a commission. An inscription on the original framing material says he drew it himself in 1783 and gave it to the Philadelphia painter Thomas Sully around 1817. It later passed to a R. Lambdin by 1857, a chain of ownership that makes it a useful record of how Stuart's work circulated among American artists.

Created / published[ca. 1783]
Medium1 drawing : ink and wash.
GenreSelf-portraits 1780-1790.Ink drawings American 1780-1790.
NotesAttributed to Gilbert Stuart. Inscribed on framing material: Portrait of Gilbert Stuart drawn 1783 by himself and given to Thomas Sully about 1817 - from Sully to R. Lambdin 1857. Served by advance appointment only. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana / Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999, p. 76.
SubjectsStuart, Gilbert,--1755-1828
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,786 × 4,675 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220277

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