American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century

by National Gallery of Art (U. S.); Burda, Patricia; Mills, Cynthia J.; Miles, Ellen Gross; Reinhardt, Leslie Kaye

• ISBN13: 9780894682100
• ISBN10: 0894682105
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-11
• Publisher: Natl Gallery of Art

Summary

The National Gallery's collection of eighteenth-century American paintings includes some of its greatest treasures and most beloved national icons. John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark, Gilbert Stuart's The Skater (Portrait of William Granti) and George Washington (Vaughan portrait)--as well as his portraits of the first five presidents of the United States, the so-called Gibbs-Coolidge portraits--and Edward Savage's Washington Family. Ellen G. Miles, curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, presents new research culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents that offer a fresh perspective on the artists and sitters, as well as new insight into the paintings. (This publication is made possible by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation).

Author Biography

Ellen G. Miles is curator of painting and sculpture at The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction and Notes to the Reader
Joseph Badger	p. 2
Joseph Blackburn	p. 10
Mather Brown	p. 13
John Singleton Copley	p. 20
Ralph Earl	p. 90
Robert Feke	p. 101
John Greenwood	p. 104
John Johnston	p. 109
Charles Willson Peale	p. 112
Robert Edge Pine	p. 128
Charles Peale Polk	p. 132
Matthew Pratt	p. 138
Edward Savage	p. 145
Gilbert Stuart	p. 160
Jeremiah Theus	p. 291
John Trumbull	p. 298
Adolph-Ulrich Wertmuller	p. 312
Benjamin West	p. 316
John Wollaston	p. 351
Unknown American Artists	p. 362
Bibliography	p. 371
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Exhibitions	p. 394
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Institutions	p. 395
Indices	p. 396
General	p. 396
Previous Owners	p. 415
Concordances	p. 420
Old-New Titles	p. 420
Old-New Attributions	p. 421
New-Old Accession Numbers	p. 422
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