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Gilbert Stuart: Abigail Smith Adams (Mrs. John Adams)  wikidata:Q20180465 reasonator:Q20180465
Artist
Gilbert Stuart  (1755–1828)  wikidata:Q41402 q:hy:Գիլբերտ Ստյուարտ
 
Gilbert Stuart
Alternative names
Gilbert Charles Stuart ; Birth name: Gilbert Charles Stewart
Description American painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death 3 December 1755 Edit this at Wikidata 9 July 1828 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death North Kingston (Newport, Category:Rhode Island) Boston Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Boston, New York, London, Dublin
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q41402
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Title
Abigail Smith Adams
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Abigail Adams Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1810 and 1815
date QS:P571,+1810-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1810-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 73.4 cm (28.8 in); width: 59.7 cm (23.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,73.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,59.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Ground Floor Gallery 42B
Accession number
1954.7.2
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history Mrs. John Adams felt that "if we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women." Stuart's portrait, begun when the first lady was fifty-six, captures the patrician beauty of her straight nose and arched brows. The forthright painting also leaves little doubt about the force of character, intellect, and principles of this daughter of a Massachusetts minister.

This likeness was Stuart's only completed picture of Abigail Smith Adams. It and its companion piece of her husband, John Adams, were started in 1800 but not delivered until 1815. The Adams' eldest son and the future sixth president, John Quincy Adams, politely stated his family's attitude toward the artist's procrastination: "Mr. Stuart thinks it the prerogative of genius to disdain the performance of his engagements."
Credit line Gift of Mrs. Robert Homans
References
Source/Photographer National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection

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