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Gilbert Stuart Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Gilbert Stuart available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Gilbert Stuart at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Academy Art Museum, Maryland
A Portrait of Edward Addison
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Mrs. Stephen Peabody, 1809
Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York NEW!
Portrait of George Washington, ca.1820
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Portrait of Anne Eliza Allston, ca.1808
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
7 portraits online
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
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 which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
George Washington, 1797
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dr. Walter Landor, ca.1785
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
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
William Cooper (1754-1809), 1794-97
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Joseph Brant (1742-1807), 1786
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
George Washington
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
3 portraits online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
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
5 paintings online
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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
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 NEW!
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Portrait of George Washington
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis (Sally Foster Otis), 1809
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
The Huntington Library, California
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Presumed Portrait of George Washington's Cook
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "American 1700-1900" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
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:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Portrait of a Gentleman
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Gilbert Stuart at The Art Renewal Center
Gilbert Stuart at The Athenaeum 
125 works online by Stuart
Gilbert Stuart in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
California State University WorldImages Database
Gilbert Stuart at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Gilbert Stuart Retrospective at National Gallery of Art (7 works online)
Maryland ArtSource
Tennessee Portrait Project
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 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
"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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