Gilbert Stuart

and God Bless America for the Revolution! Imagine needing to pay taxes...for the upkeep of a monarchy! One of my favorite Stuart portraits o...

A law passed in Congress July 1790 that established Philadelphia as the interim capital, and all government offices began to straggle over ...

Anna Maria [Hampton] Denman in detail In the last entry, an advertisement for Meeker's firm “Meeker, Denman, & Co.” in the Philad...

click on image for a larger view Meeker, Denman, & Co No. 22 South Front Street Have received by the *** from Grenock, to N. York, Cumbe...

Two posts back I described a noted Philadelphian socialite considered a beauty in her time ( Mrs. Samuel Blodget ); today I introduce her fa...

Samuel Meeker , the portrait, was most likely not discovered by Lawrence Park when he was assembling the works of Stuart, as the portrait wa...

Being interested in the time period of Samuel Meeker, I bought a book which was ‘discarded’ from the “Abraham Lincoln Junior High School Lib...

Click on the image for a bigger and better view! See the entry previous to this for more on Robert Morris (1734-1806), American Rebel & ...

Robert Morris 1734-1806 There is a new biography out on the American rebel/financier; Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution b...

Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart At the moment I am reading "Thomas Jefferson", a bio of Jefferson by Fawn Brodie. I don't ...

Below is the William Birch illustration of the country seat of Samuel Meeker on the Schuylkill River Philadelphia ( courtesy of the River P...

l ~ “Fountain Green, the seat next beyond the Cliffs , originally belonged to Samuel Mifflin.... The grounds ran over to what was called Mif...

Mount Pleasant, splendid villa about a 10 min walk from where Fountain Green used to be. ddd In August I visited Philadelphia and was able t...

James Madison by Gibert Stuart: the portrait was painted for the Honorable James Bowdoin and presented by him to Bowdoin College, Brunswick,...

Thats MY ROOM!!! On Aug 22 I will arrive in Philadelphia, for the first time in my life. So much to do, so little time! Only 3 days in the c...

My grandfather Benjamin Hyde Cory (1896-1983). Born in Fresno, Ca. Here he is as a young man, most likely during his undergrad years at Pri...

In my everongoing sleuthing on my ancestor Samuel Meeker, I have discovered that most likely he left the family home of the Westfields NJ fo...

Mrs. Andrew Sigourney Gilbert Stuart, Boston c.1820 copied from Lawrence Park volume IV from Lawrence Park: Mrs. Andrew Sigourney 1765-184...

Anne Willing Bingham 1797 by Gilbert Stuart in private collection wearing a pendant portrait of her husband and acclaimed by Abigail Adams...

Yesterday was nothing special or out of the ordinary, as usual watching the news on a Fri. eve (love the Shields-Brooks match up on the PBS ...

Rebecca White, aka Mrs. Timothy Pickering, was born in England and came over to this country in 1765 at age 11. Eleven years later (1776) sh...

Master Clarke By Gilbert Stuart, England 1783-4, originally in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ferragamo, sold on May 19 to new owners On May...

Finance , Then and Now § by Elizabeth Ahrens-Kley The recent economic rescue plans undertaken by the U.S. government to stave off fiscal ca...