On Desperate Seas: A Biography of Gilbert Stuart

by James Thomas Flexner

Book Overview

This is Flexner's portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington, and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner presents us with a portrait constructed as the artist would have constructed it, frank, without flattery, profound, and soul-stirring.

A man once regarded as the probable successor of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Stuart was born in poverty in Rhode Island. He became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823216128
• ISBN13: 9780823216123
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.3"