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This is Flexners portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington, and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner presents us with a portrait constructed as the artist would have constructed it, frank, without flattery, profound, and soul-stirring. A man once regarded as the probable successor of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Stuart was born in poverty in Rhode Island. He became through his art the intimate of the great of two continents. Yet, he never abandoned his disdain for worldly rank, or his fascination with character. He made huge sums in England but spent even more in dissipation. Prison yawned for him, and he fled his creditors. During his thirty-five American years, he painted with brilliance, creating a unique portrait manner. His rank as an artist was never questioned, but his nerves would not quiet. He drank, fought with his wife, and tortured his children. Stuart died as he lived: famous and bankrupt.

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title	:	On Desperate Seas : A Biography of Gilbert Stuart
author	:	Flexner, James Thomas.
publisher	:	Fordham University Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0823216128
print isbn13	:	9780823216123
ebook isbn13	:	9780585125541
language	:	English
subject	Stuart, Gilbert,--1775-1828, Painters--United States--Biography.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	ND237.S8F5 1995eb
ddc	:	759.13
subject	:	Stuart, Gilbert,--1775-1828, Painters--United States--Biography.

On Desperate Seas

A Biography of Gilbert Stuart

by
James Thomas Flexner

Fordham University Press
New York
1995

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Flexner, James Thomas, 1908
[Gilbert Stuart]
On desperate seas: a biography of Gilbert Stuart/James
Thomas Flexner. Fordham University Press
reprint ed.
p.

cm.
Originally published: Gilbert Stuart. 1st ed. New York:
Knopf, 1955. (Great lives in brief)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8232-1612-8
1. Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828. 2. Painters United
States Biography. I. Title.
ND237.S8F5

1995
759.13 dc20
[B]

95-10188

CIP

Printed in the United States of America

TO WILLIAM SAWITZKY
1879-1947
Pioneer student of early American art

Contents

Chapter

I
A Wild Boy

II
A Primitive Painter

III
Battle for Uniqueness

IV
Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New

V
Personal Failures and Professional Triumphs

VI
Irish Varieties

VII
The Return of the Prodigal

100

VIII
Images of Washington

122

IX
Fame without Fortune

149

X
On Desperate Seas

175

Bibliography

193

Index

follows page

197

Gilbert Stuart Self-Portrait Redwood Library and Athenum Newport Rhode - photo 18

Gilbert Stuart: Self-Portrait. Redwood Library and Athenum,
Newport, Rhode Island.

Gilbert Stuart Unfinished Self-Portrait The Metropolitan Museum of Art - photo 19

Gilbert Stuart: Unfinished Self-Portrait. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1926.

Bust of Gilbert Stuart by Browere Redwood Library and Athenum Newport Rhode - photo 20

Bust of Gilbert Stuart by Browere. Redwood Library and
Athenum, Newport, Rhode Island.

Page 3

Chapter One
A Wild Boy

Like a true believer entering a shrine, John Neal tiptoed reverently into Gilbert Stuart's Boston studio. The more art is banished from the main current of national life by utilitarian pursuits, the more holy it seems to its votaries. In the roaring 1820's when the energies of the nation were absorbed in the growing settlements beyond the mountains, Neal, who aspired to be a painter, thought of Gilbert Stuart as a god. Was not Stuart recognized as the greatest artist in America? Had he not preserved the features of Washington for all future ages? Humbly Neal advanced toward the end of his pilgrimage.

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