Gilbert Stuart

Samuel Meeker (detail) by Gilbert Stuart 1803 Philadelphia Samuel Meeker could proudly point out his ancestry going back 5 generations ...

On November 15, 1964, a picture and story of William Bingham was on the front page of The New York Times ! I was alerted to this by the fol...

It is well-known that Stuart did not sign his paintings, he felt that a portrait of his WAS the signature! I received a mail, from someone ...

From the Pennsylvania Gazette 28 Oct. 1797, (see the front page of the paper below)**Click to enlarge, and view all the interesting article...

Elizabeth Willing was the sister of Thomas Willing, father of Anne Willing, featured in the last two posts (click here , and here , for the ...

Samuel Meeker was a banker/merchant. William Bingham was also a banker/merchant, but on a different scale than Meeker, thus this portrait (a...

Her grandfather was Charles Willing, a British-born merchant in Philadelphia. At the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, he operate...

The statue of Alexander Hamilton at the Treasury entrance reminds Mr. Geithner every day of the importance of maintaining the nations's ...

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...