Tag: portrait

The Skater (Portrait of William Grant) by Gilbert Stuart

Portrait of William Grant ice skating.
Gilbert Stuart, The Skater (Portrait of William Grant), American, 1755 – 1828, 1782, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection

This full-length portrait of Scottish lawyer William Grant was Stuart’s first but already he was innovating. We’ll find out how a cold day in the studio led to this creative variation on a standard portrait pose and just what the heck the Serpentine greeting is!

We’ll also find out how despite his fame and plenty of work, Stuart ripped off the first First Lady, Martha Washington!

Here’s a detail of the frame I mentioned:

Close up of decorative carving of frame

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SHOW NOTES

“A Long Look” theme is Ascension by Ron Gelinas

Episode theme is “6 String Quartets – Quartet no. 1” composed by Charles Wesley, performed by Steve’s Bedroom Band. Courtesy of musopen.org

Gilbert Stuart information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1911.html

The Skater information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.39729.html

George Washington (The Athenaeum Portrait) National Portrait Gallery entry

Serpentine Greeting/Mohawk (YouTube)

Recommended Reading

American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century (PDF)

Slow Art Day

07 Judith Leyster Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait by Judith Leyster

This warm and welcoming self-portrait by Dutch master Judith Leyster is a gallery favorite. Join me while I talk about how this remarkable woman accomplished what few women artists did in her time only to disappear from history until an English court case began her revival.

We’ll discover the reason why her impractical outfit served a larger purpose and her clever two-birds-with-one-stone marketing technique.

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SHOW NOTES

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas
youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Concerto for 2 Flutes in C major, RV 533 – III. Allegro” by Antonio Vivaldi performed by the Orchestra Gli Armonici
https://musopen.org/music/3613-concerto-for-2-flutes-in-c-major-rv-533/

Self-Portrait information
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., “Judith Leyster/Self-Portrait/c. 1630,” Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/37003 (accessed February 12, 2018).

https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/leyster-self-portrait.html

Court case information

https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/leyster-self-portrait.html#judith-leyster-self-portrait-c-1630

Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland’s Golden Age, by Frima Fox Hofrichter, Doornspijk, 1989, Davaco Publishers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Leyster#Leyster_and_Frans_Hals

Slow Art Day
http://www.slowartday.com