Washington on Canvas Stuart Portrait and Its Big Full Figure
The Mini Page highlights Gilbert Stuart's unfinished Washington portrait used as a guide for up to 75 versions. The life size painting stands over eight feet tall, depicts Washington in a black velvet suit, and includes an oval Stars and Stripes on the chair back. Stuart made two copies for patrons and faced sitters for the face over several sessions. Ellen Miles of the National Portrait Gallery aided with the issue.
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Stuart
Washington
Ellen Miles
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Charles Wilson Peale
John Singleton Copley
Benjamin West
Phil Vassar rises from athlete to country star
Phil Vassar, a former track student at James Madison University, moved to Nashville to pursue music. He wrote songs for Alan Jackson and Tim McGraw before launching his own career, earning the ACM Top Male Vocalist award in 2002. He grew up in Lynchburg Virginia and has a wife and two daughters.
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Phil
James Madison University
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Tim McGraw
Academy of Country Music
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Gilbert Stuart Portraits Shaped a Young Nation
The article recalls Gilbert Stuart born 1755 near Newport and known as the leading early American portraitist. It notes his self description bread by making faces and his ability to reveal personality, his 1 000 potential works, moves to London at 19, debt battles, and jail. It highlights his return after 18 years in Europe and painting presidents and figures like Jefferson Washington Adams Madison Monroe. The National Gallery exhibit Gilbert Stuart runs through July 31 in Washington DC.
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Washington
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National Gallery of Art
D.C
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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