Live Auction 4936Old Masters & British Paintings
Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755-1828 Boston)
Lot 137

Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755-1828 Boston)

Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as William Taylor, half-length, in a blue coat and white cravat, in a feigned oval

Closed4 May 2012

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GBP 4,750

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Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755-1828 Boston)
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as William Taylor, half-length, in a blue coat and white cravat, in a feigned oval
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Specialist note

We are grateful to Carrie Barratt from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph. Ms Barratt suggests the present portrait was painted in Dublin before 1793.