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Lot Essay
The present model is based on a painting by Gilbert Stuart. After polishing his skills in Britain, he brought to America an international language of portraiture that satisfied the new nation's need for lasting images of its first leaders. During the period 1795-96 Stuart was granted three sittings with Washington. Stuart created three portrait types for the president: a bust-length facing left (the so-called Vaughan image), another facing right (the Athenaeum version) and a full-length composition (the Lansdowne).
See Geoffrey A. Godden, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1966, p. 360, pl. 633 for a black basaltes example by Enoch Wood, circa 1818, in the Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. For a similar pottery example see Paul Atterbury, English Pottery and Porcelain, p. 164. Also see The Collection of Rev. Benjamin J. Lake, D.D., Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 1987, lot 436; and an anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 April 1998, lot 317.
See Geoffrey A. Godden, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1966, p. 360, pl. 633 for a black basaltes example by Enoch Wood, circa 1818, in the Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. For a similar pottery example see Paul Atterbury, English Pottery and Porcelain, p. 164. Also see The Collection of Rev. Benjamin J. Lake, D.D., Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 1987, lot 436; and an anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 April 1998, lot 317.