Word: stuart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stuart Gordon Hardy of Redding, Conn...
...should return to life and stand side by side with the portrait and not resemble it he would be called an impostor." Also included are the portraits of the first five Presidents, painted on mahogany panels planned to resemble the texture of canvas; the first painting ever done by Stuart (at the age of 12); the alleged last painting he ever did (of Mrs. John Forrester); that of Commodore Oliver Hazzard Perry...
Dying at 72, Artist Stuart's brushwork remained unimpaired, though he is said to have been forced to ask a friend (George Brimmer) to sign a canvas for him, his hand being too shaky. As a rule he neither signed nor completed portraits. His daughter Jane is said to have completed many of them for him, his interest ending when he had done the face...
Said Artist Stuart on being asked why he rarely signed his work: "I mark them all over!" Said he of the famed Washington portrait: "When I painted him he had just had a set of false teeth inserted, which accounts for the constrained expression so noticeable about the mouth and lower part of the face...
Washington sat for three portraits. Of these, one was scratched out by Stuart ; the other two were retained unfinished by him in order that he might copy and sell them in quantities. When he needed money, said his daughter, he would copy one in a few hours...