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	Lansdowne portrait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic oil-on-canvas portrait of George Washington, the first President of the United States.
		The portrait was commissioned in April 1796 by Senator William Bingham of Pennsylvania—one of the wealthiest men in the U.S. at the time—and his wife, Anne.
		The portrait measures 8 by 5 feet (2.44 by 1.52 m) and was given as a gift of appreciation to William Petty, the second Earl of Shelburne and the first Marquess of Lansdowne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lansdowne_portrait (657 words)

	Portrait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Lansdowne portrait - The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic oil-on-canvas portrait of George Washington, the first President of the United States.
		Portraits of George Washington often show him in military uniform, the pin of the Society of the Cincinnati on his lapel; others have him in fl velvet, wearing a simple ruffled white shirt, his hair tied back in a queue.
		Further chapters are devoted to the artist's studio portrait and equipment; preliminary sketches; planning the portrait; developing a likeness; finished portrait drawings; color portrait and composition; pastel portraits, watercolor portraits, oil sketches, portrait and finished oil portraits; portrait and framing portrait and hanging the portrait.
	www.alsonhk.com /portrait.html (769 words)

	The Papers of George Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Washington, D.C. The famous Lansdowne portrait, named for the marquis of Lansdowne in England who received it, was painted in 1796 by American artist Gilbert Stuart.
		The Lansdowne portrait has been in the news recently because Lord Harry Dalmeny, 33-year-old heir of the titled British family that owns it, wanted $20 million for the painting or its return.
		On March 14th, a Las Vegas foundation donated $30 million to fund the purchase of the painting, a new display case and a tour of the Lansdowne portrait around the United States.
	gwpapers.virginia.edu /education/news/news1.html (226 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| George Washington "Lansdowne" Portrait
		The "Lansdowne" portrait of George Washington is an American treasure, an iconic painting whose historical and cultural importance has been compared to that of the Liberty Bell and the Declaration of Independence.
		The painting was displayed in Lansdowne's London mansion until his death in 1805, after which it remained in private hands and was eventually incorporated into the collection of the 5th Earl of Rosebery around 1890.
		In preparation for the 1968 opening of the National Portrait Gallery, Charles Nagel, the first director, sought out "a picture of the father of our country from which the collection would flow forward and back in the point of time." Such was the Lansdowne portrait, which became the central attraction of the Gallery.
	www.npg.si.edu /collect/lansdowne2.htm (479 words)

	Case Studies in Comparison: The Contested American Identity
		The Portrait Gallery is charged with including notable Americans in its halls, and presumably those figures somehow represent America or the national identity in a larger sense.
		The Lansdowne portrait shows the founder of the nation clearly with one foot in his new republic and another in the democratic societies of ancient Greece and Rome.
		Granted, the Rockwell portrait was completed prior to Nixon's downfall, but the Portrait Gallery's choice to exhibit this image among all others possible demonstrates how comparing various portraits of a figure complicates the ability to view him or her through the narrow lens of a single image.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA98/barans/npg/juxt.htm (2132 words)

	Daily Press archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Still, the Lansdowne portrait is the main event, as a full-length painting of the 6-foot-3-inch president would almost have to be.
		The Lansdowne portrait (1796), one of only three images of George Washington that Gilbert Stuart painted from life, shows Washington renouncing a third term as president.
		With its bloody scene from the French and Indian War, John Singleton Copley’s ‘Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie, Later Twelfth Earl of Eglinton’ (1780; oil on canvas) is a far cry from Stuart’s peaceable Landsdown portrait.
	www.vvdailypress.com /2001-2003/103743360089528.html (1038 words)

	Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Portrait of Heroism The iconic portrait of George Washington, painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796, is also known as the Lansdowne portrait.
		The portrait is a true national treasure, one whose historical and cultural importance has been compared to that of the Liberty Bell and the Declaration of Independence.
		The National Portrait Gallery is bringing the image of the painting to every state with its 50-state initiative chaired by Secretary of Education Rod Paige.
	www.artsmia.org /press/view.cfm?PR_ID=64 (648 words)

	The Selective Narrative: A Figurative Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
		To tour the National Portrait Gallery is to tour its version of American history, a drama with glory counterbalanced by despair as seen in the faces of its heroes and the lingering images of those excluded, left outside history's gate.
		The National Portrait Gallery's narrative of American history is a balance between the voices of the powerful and previously powerless, and that narrative is influenced greatly by the practical constraits which any museum must consider.
		Pocahontas’ portrait tells the literal story of European dominance over Native American life in the "new world." There is a certain irony in the fact that across from the "Colonial America" gallery is another gallery dedicated to "Native Americans" in which the artistic filtration process seems politically motivated in a different manner.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA98/barans/npg/select.htm (4202 words)

	National Gallery of Art - Gilbert Stuart: Philadelphia
		Painting his portrait was a shrewd business move, for depictions of Washington were in demand on both sides of the Atlantic.
		That first portrait was so successful that Martha Washington commissioned Stuart to paint a pair of portraits of her and her husband for their Virginia home, Mount Vernon.
		The portrait is known as the Lansdowne because it was commissioned as a gift for the Marquis of Lansdowne.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/2005/stuart/philadelphia.shtm (438 words)

	Joseph M. Piro \| The Rhode Island 'Washington': Meaning Making in Social Studies Through Art History \| The History ...
		The portrait market in America was growing, with an emergent upper class eager for the social status conferred on anyone who commissioned and sat for a portrait.
		The first portrait was hung in the Senate Chamber of the Old Providence State House on Benefit Street where it remained until 1901 when it was moved to the State Reception Room of the new State House.
		However, similar activities could apply to a local portrait which students could be taken to see, or alternatively, a teacher might have students do research to see if their state has a portrait of George Washington located in any local or state legislative building.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/38.4/piro.html (3764 words)

	Portraits at Met Capture Leaders of U.S. - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com
		Stuart's portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers are familiar from history books and classroom walls, and now these widely dispersed icons and his other great works are assembled in one astonishing collection.
		In the "Lansdowne" portrait, 8 feet by 6 feet, Washington is depicted in a fl cape, his right hand outstretched over a table of presidential documents, his left hand clutching a gold-handled sword.
		But when he delivered, the portrait was invariably accurate _ if not always to the idealized conceptions of his sitters.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6284596 (827 words)

	Uncommon Sense, No. 120 - Gilbert Stuart atthe National Gallery of Art
		Their portraits and their interactions with Stuart are the focus of this exhibition, organized jointly by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
		The “Lansdowne” portrait was a gift from wealthy Philadelphia merchant William Bingham to the Marquis of Lansdowne, the English political ally of the Americans during and after the American Revolution.
		For his portrait of seventy-five year old William Smith, provost of the College of Philadelphia, Stuart was assisted by Smith’s son-in-law, the architect Samuel Blodget, Jr., who designed both the foreground, with its table, books, compass, and theodolite, and the background, a landscape view of the Schuylkill River.
	www.wm.edu /oieahc/uncommon/120/stuart.htm (2345 words)

	Portrait America - artnet Magazine
		Portraits of Native Americans by George Catlin displayed in the "Catlin Staircase" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
		Elsewhere in the Portrait Gallery is an area devoted to the sculptures of Jo Davidson.
		In the National Portrait Gallery, I counted four by Alice Neel, including her own self—portrait -- an elderly nude woman with glasses and a paintbrush in her hand seated in a striped chair.
	www.artnet.com /magazineus/features/karlins/karlins7-7-06.asp (1516 words)

	Lee-Anne Penny's Art Notes Stuart/Copley
		Elizabeth, the daughter standing in the center of the family portrait, is Faith, and Mary, the infant on the sofa, is Hope.
		In his portraits, his importance is suggested because of his actions and his personal merit and the purity of his character, rather than because of accidents of birth or inherited position.
		The Lansdowne portrait was done for the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Governor General of Canada and British Whig politician who fought for the British recognition of America.
	www.amblesideonline.org /Art2002Sep.shtml (2178 words)

	George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		These are known as the "Lansdowne" portraits because this version was the gift of Mrs.
		Another version of the portrait was described at the time of its exhibition in New York City in 1798 as showing Washington "surrounded with allegorical emblems of his public life in the service of his country, which are highly illustrative of the great and tremendous storms which have frequently prevailed.
		These storms have abated, and the appearance of the rainbow is introduced in the background as a sign." Another version, which hangs in the East Room of the White House, was rescued by Dolley Madison before that building was burned by the British during the War of 1812.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/gw/lands.htm (251 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Famous Washington portrait on display at LVAM
		The 8-by-5-foot portrait was painted from life by Gilbert Stuart in 1796 during the last year of Washington's presidency.
		Commonly known as the Lansdowne portrait, the painting was commissioned by by Sen. William Bingham and his wife Anne of Pennsylvania as a gift for the Marquis of Lansdowne, one of few English supporters of American independence.
		The Rosebery family of England bought the painting in the late 1800s and loaned it to the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in 1968, where the painting became a focal point of the gallery.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2002/jun/28/513646085.html (586 words)

	Gilbert Stuart - Washington
		Although a version of the Lansdowne portrait was bought in 1947 by the Brooklyn Museum for seventy thousand dollars, the full-lengths are dreadful pictures.
		The Athenaeum portrait has a cameolike perfection that shows up well on dollar bills and postage stamps, yet it reveals little of that profound insight into character which is the glory of Stuart's greatest pictures.
		His copies of his Athenaeum portrait, which for patriotic reasons occupies prominent positions in so many museums, are for the most part vastly inferior to the original: some of the faces, indeed, seem hardly human.
	www.americanrevolution.org /washstu.html (3559 words)

	Washington, DC
		This portrait of George Washington, painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796, is on view at the newly re-opened National Portrait Gallery: Click here.
		George Washington, the "Lansdowne" portrait, painted 1796 by Gilbert Stuart.
		This replica of the "Lansdowne" portrait was painted in 1797 by Gilbert Stuart and has been in the White House collection since 1800.
	www.sar.org /dcssar/WDC.htm (531 words)

	deseretnews.com \| President's portrait drawing big crowds
		The looming 8-foot-by-5-foot portrait of George Washington is one of the most famous American paintings, the only full-figure portrait of the general not wearing a soldier's uniform.
		The artwork is often called the Lansdowne portrait because it was commissioned by Pennsylvania Sen. William Bingham as a gift for the Marquis of Lansdowne, an English supporter of American independence.
		The often-copied Lansdowne portrait is still the most famous of Washington.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,575039308,00.html (443 words)

	Grand Reopening: Speaking of Art
		The prize of the presidential collection—arguably, of the entire NPG—is the full-length painting of Washington by Gilbert Stuart known as the Lansdowne portrait.
		In the 19th century, the painting was sold to the Earl of Rosebery, from whom it descended into the possession of Lord Dalmeny, the current heir to the earldom.
		From the time the NPG first opened, the museum had exhibited the Lansdowne portrait on extended loan.When Dalmeny announced his intention of selling it at auction in 2001, Pachter was aghast.
	www.smithsonianmagazine.com /issues/2006/july/saam_npg.php?page=2 (636 words)

	Acclaimed Exhibition to Celebrate Finale at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock - Press Room - General Information ...
		The National Portrait Gallery has developed an expansive educational agenda, chaired by Secretary of Education Rod Paige, that brings both the portrait and the man behind the image to life.
		It was commissioned in 1796 by one of America's wealthiest men, Sen. William Bingham of Pennsylvania, for the Marquis of Lansdown, an English supporter of the American cause in Parliament during the American Revolution.
		For media purposes only, a high-resolution image of the portrait can be found at ftp://160.111.16.40/pub/npgart/.
	www.arkarts.com /general/press_room/gen_pr_240.asp (874 words)

	Portrait Detectives: Lesson 1: Identifying and Understanding Portraits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The teacher facilitates the discussion by asking students to describe what is unique about a portrait, and the class contributes to a list of those characteristics on the board or chart paper.
		The portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart (The Lansdowne portrait) will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston until June 16, 2002.
		Is the portrait realistic (looks absolutely real) or is it abstract (the artist was thinking about something real, but altered the visual reality of the subject in some way).
	www.fm.coe.uh.edu /resources/portrait_detectives/pd_lesson1.html (774 words)

	A Gift to the Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In the final year of Washington’s Presidency, his portrait was painted, life-size, by the renowned American artist Gilbert Stuart.
		Stuart actually did a number of portraits of the President, including the head that has had so famous an afterlife on the American dollar bill, and he made many replicas.
		The portrait was commissioned by a wealthy American couple, Mr.
	www.kidscastle.si.edu /issues/2001/august/small_aug01.php (663 words)

	George Washington: A National Treasure
		The Interactive Portrait section’s use of high-quality graphics to interpret each of twelve pictorial elements through what it calls “symbolic,” "biographic,“ and ”artistic" filters is especially promising.
		It could benefit from an introductory discussion of the portrait as a seamless blend of illusionistic effects and visual metaphors.
		These sections rely upon the portrait’s aggregation of elements without noting that such multiplicity was a conscious strategy for structuring reception.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6500 (240 words)

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