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Original works by Gilbert Stuart available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Portrait of Mr. Webb, ca.1787
Gilbert Stuart at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
7 portraits online, including 5 oil paintings
Gilbert Stuart at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
23 works by Gilbert Stuart online
Gilbert Stuart at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Gilbert Stuart at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
46 works by Gilbert Stuart
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Mrs. Stephen Peabody, 1809
Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York
Portrait of George Washington, ca.1820
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Portrait of Anne Eliza Allston, ca.1808
Boston Athenaeum
Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
7 portraits online
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Portrait of John McLean
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Hope Doane Savage (Mrs. Samuel)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
George Washington
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
George Washington, 1797
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dr. Walter Landor, ca.1785
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
John Ashley, Esq., ca.1798
Mrs. John Ashley, ca.1798
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham
Mrs. Nathaniel Coffin, ca.1820
Dimock Gallery at George Washington University, Washington D.C.
George Washington, ca.1800
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Portrait of George Hamilton as a Baron of the Exchequer, ca.1790
Mrs. George Hamilton, ca.1790
Frick Collection, New York City
George Washington, 1795-96
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
3 portraits online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Gilbert Stuart in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Elizabeth Perkins Sturgis
Russell Sturgis
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Portrait of Mrs. Josiah Quincy
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Portrait of James Ward, 1799
Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Portrait of Isaac Gouverneur
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
2 portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Portrait of Martha Washington
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Jared
New-York Historical Society
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Portrait of Thomas Apthorpe Cooper, ca.1820
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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4 works by Gilbert Stuart online
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW!
Portrait of George Washington
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina NEW!
Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis (Sally Foster Otis), 1809
Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Presumed Portrait of George Washington's Cook
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
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U.S. Senate Art Collection
2 portraits of George Washington
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Portrait of George Washington
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Mrs. Perez Morton, ca.1802
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
8 paintings
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections NEW!
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
CGFA
The Athenaeum 
125 works online by Stuart
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyzm
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
PBase Photo Sharing
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The History Project at U.C. Davis NEW!
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Gilbert Stuart Retrospective at National Gallery of Art (7 works online)
Maryland ArtSource
Tennessee Portrait Project NEW!
Princess Achille Murat
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
George Washington Standing Portrait
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gilbert Stuart 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
American Art Magazine
"Gilbert Stuart and Manic Depression: Redefining His Artistic Range"
ARTnews
2 articles related to Gilbert Stuart
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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America's Old Masters: West, Copley, Peale and Stuart
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The Voices of Silence
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The Genius of Gilbert Stuart
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