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Gilbert Stuart: John Jay  wikidata:Q20180085 reasonator:Q20180085
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
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artist QS:P170,Q41402
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Title
Portrait of John Jay
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people John Jay Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1794
date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 131 cm (51.5 in); width: 102 cm (40.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,131U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,102U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Accession number
2009.132.1 (National Gallery of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Notes
Notes from National Gallery of Art

"The classical column, crimson drapery, legal tome, and robes of state in this impressive portrait recall the "Grand Manner" tradition Stuart had used to emphasize the social status of British aristocrats.

As a framer of the Constitution and the first Chief Justice of the United States from 1789 to 1795, John Jay was the first American statesman of international reputation whom Stuart ever painted. The success of this likeness of the chief justice, painted in New York in 1794, introduced Stuart to an appreciative clientele in America.

The forty-nine-year-old Jay could spare time to pose only for the head. His nephew modeled the judicial robe so that Stuart could complete the body. Broadly painted strokes suggest the robe's gleaming scarlet, black, and white satin, setting off by contrast the careful execution of Jay's handsome features.

Stuart rendered Jay's complexion with deftly executed highlights in opaque paint on top of translucent glazes of thinned oils. Later the artist explained his methods for painting such lively skin tones: "Good flesh color partook of all colors, not mixed so as to combine in one tint, but shining through each other, like blood through natural skin."

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