

| Date : approx. between 1779 and 1785
Material : Oil on canvas Acquisition : Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness (1950)
| Item 12 on 18 American Art Painting
Area related London (England)
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This portrait seems to have be painted as a rectangle and then changed to an oval format. It is one of Stuart's most virtuosic paintings, clearly from his first years in London. It seems to be inspired by Thomas Gainsborough, whose paintings the young American certainly saw and admired in England.
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