George Washington (Munro-Lenox type)

Jane Stuart, youngest child of Gilbert Stuart, was born in Boston in 1812. She received her training as a portrait painter from her father. Upon his death in 1828, she and her three sisters with their mother moved to Newport, Rhode Island, the parents' original home. Jane Stuart exhibited at the National Academy between 1829 and 1845, mainly portraits with an occasional genre subject. During the 1850's, she maintained a studio in Boston. A skilled copyist, she executed copies of many of her father's portraits. Most of her life was spent in Newport where she died on April 27, 1888. This copy of Gilbert Stuart's "Lansdowne" type portrait of Washington was purchased by Mr. Corcoran from the artist at Newport, R.I., in 1854.

Dorothy W. Phillips (Author), A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art: Volume 1, Painters Born Before 1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, vol. 1, p. 81, no ill.

Sarah Cash (Editor), Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2012, p. 41, n88; ill. 318 (black and white)

Register of Paintings Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1869-1946, Corcoran Gallery of Art Registrar's Office Records, 1869-2013 (COR RG 5.1), Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., p. 8, no. 55

George Washington: The Man behind the Myths, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond VA, January 20, 1999 - July 14, 2000

The Great Game of Politics, Corcoran Gallery of Art [1869-2014], Washington DC, October 06, 1972 - November 06, 1972