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Gilbert Stuart (painter) American, 1755 - 1828 George Washington, c. 1821 oil on wood overall: 67 x 55 cm (26 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.) Gift of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge IV in memory of his great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge II, and his father, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge III 1979.5.1 |
This version is among the best of the seventy-two copies Stuart made of his Athenaeum format for the first president. Painted from life in April 1796, the unfinished original is now shared at three-year intervals between the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington.