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...heisted portrait of early 19th century Harvard President John T. Kirkland, which resurfaced in upstate New York earlier this month, is almost certainly not an original Gilbert Stuart painting, an art historian told The Crimson in a phone interview last night...
...Stuart is one of early America’s most famous portraitists, best known for his more than 60 renderings of George Washington—one of which appears on the dollar bill...
Although a similar portrait of Kirkland, painted by Stuart, sold for $182,000 in Manchester, N.H., this past summer, the stolen Harvard-owned version appears to be only a copy and is therefore worth considerably less...
Born in Newport, R.I., in 1775, Stuart set off for London as a young man to improve his portrait-painting skills under the tutelage of masters. He returned to his native land in the 1790s and ultimately settled in Boston. He painted more than 1,000 portraits before his death in 1828—including illustrious Harvard alums such as founding father John Adams, Class of 1755, and Kirkland, Class of 1789, a clergyman who led Harvard from 1810 to 1828 and presided over the establishment of the University’s law school...
Evans, the author of “The Genius of Gilbert Stuart,” said last night that the Kirkland portrait at Stair Galleries “is not convincing...