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Hardcover On Desperate Seas: A Biography of Gilbert Stuart Book

ISBN: 0823216128

ISBN13: 9780823216123

On Desperate Seas: A Biography of Gilbert Stuart

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...

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