ISBN: 9780823216123

This is Flexner's portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington, and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner … More...

This is Flexner's portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington, and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner presents us with a portrait constructed as the artist would have constructed it, frank, without flattery, profound, and soul-stirring. A man once regarded as the probable successor of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Stuart was born in poverty in Rhode Island. He became through his art the intimate of the great of two continents. Yet, he never abandoned his disdain for worldly rank, or his fascination with character. He made huge sums in England but spent even more in dissipation. Prison yawned for him, and he fled his creditors. During his thirty-five American years, he painted with brilliance, creating a unique portrait manner. His rank as an artist was never questioned, but his nerves would not quiet. He drank, fought with his wife, and tortured his children. Stuart died as he lived: famous and bankrupt. Trade Books>Hardcover>Biography>Arts,Entertainment Biog,Memoir>Arts,Ent Biog,Memoir, Fordham University Press Core >2<

ISBN: 9780823216123

Find On Desperate Seas by James T. Flexner in Hardcover and other formats in Biography & Autobiography > Historical. Biography & Autobiography 9780823216123, Fordham University Press

2017, ISBN: 0823216128

Gebundene Ausgabe BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Fordham University Press]