Gilbert Stuart* (1755-1828)

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Gilbert Stuart* (1755-1828)

Portrait of Francis James Jackson

oil on panel
32 3/4 x 26 1/4in. (83 x 67cm.)

Provenance

Francis James Jackson
Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins
Caroline Perkins (Mrs. William Howard Gardiner), Brookline, Massachusetts, his daughter
Charles Perkins Gardiner, Brookline, Massachusetts, her son
Mrs. Charles Perkins Gardiner, Boston, Massachusetts
Caroline E. Perkins Cabot, Boston, Massachusetts, her granddaughter
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts

Literature

G.C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, New York, 1879, pp. 203-204
L. Park, Gilbert Stuart, an Illustrated Descriptive List, New York, 1926, vol. I, pp. 427-428, no. 429; vol. III, p. 260. no. 429, illus.
W. Dunlap, History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, New York, 1834, B. Blom revised edition, New York, 1965, vol. I, pp. 249-250

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Exhibition of Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, 1828, no. 168

Lot Essay

Francis James Jackson (1770-1814) was born in London and entered the British diplomatic service in 1786. He was sent to Washington, D.C. as British Minister in 1809 and remained in this capacity until 1811. According to Dunlap, when Jackson was leaving England, Benjamin West told him that he would find the finest portrait painter in the world in America, and that his name was Gilbert Stuart. The portrait was commissioned and painted in 1810.