Gilbert Stuart and Rembrandt

Stuart was born in 1755 near Newport, Rhode Island, and died in 1828. He spent his early years in Newport, and approximately 1769 began studying under Cosmo Alexander, who was a Scottish portrait painter. Stuart returned with Alexander in 1772, and returned to Newport after his teacher's death. He returned to Britain to paint during the Revolution in the United States, studying under Benjamin West. He moved to Dublin from London in 1787 where he remained, living on portrait commissions until 1792, when he returned to New York in 1793. He became famous upon his return, painting, among others, George Washington.

Stuart had a career of over forty years, producing "an extraordinary number of portraits, recording nearly all the prominent men and women of his time" (Gardner & Feld 79).

Rembrandt was born in 1606 and died in 1669. He spent the first half of his life, roughly, in Leyden, where he was born, moving to Amsterdam, where he became the most famous and popular artist of his time and place. Three years after moving to Amsterdam, he married. After his wife's death in 1642, he diverged

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d Feld write that technique is at the heart of Stuart's art in general and in the portrait of Ann Penn Allen specifically: "From the first, Stuart's sole interest was in portraiture. Although he developed an individual style of painting, it was based on a close study of the rich painterly technique and compositional devices of Georgian portrait painting. In his best works, by his 'pellucidly roseate notations' (as Virgil Barker described his brushstrokes), he achieved vivid and glowing likenesses that established him as one of the leading portrait painters in London" (Gardner & Feld 79). Indeed, the phrase "pellucidly roseate notations" serves the portrait of Ann Penn Allen well. It is a portrait where color prevails, in the same way, as we shall see, that Rembrandt's painting, "Portrait of a Young Woman," is a work where light dominates. The richness of the color in Stuart's painting gives the viewer the initial sense that it is a painting rich in feeling, in which the subject is expressing emotions because of the richness of her presentation by Stuart. In fact, however, the feelings of the subject are not expressed boldly at all. The painting is all surface, brilliant and compelling as that surface certainly is. The p
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