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The Painter's Chair
By: Hugh HowardImprint: Bloomsbury Press
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"I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painters pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck ... no dray moves more readily to the Thill, than I do to the Painters Chair." - George Washington, 16, 1785 When George Washington was born, the New World had virtually no artists. Over the course of his life, a cultural transformation would occur. Virtually everyone regarded Washington as America's indispensable man, and the early painters and sculptors were no exception. Hugh Howard surveys the founding fathers of American painting through their portraits of Washington. Charles Willson Peale was the comrade-in-arms, John Trumbull the aristocrat, Benjamin West the mentor, and Gilbert Stuart the brilliant wastrel. Their images of Washington fed an immense popular appetite that has never faded, Stuart's image endures today on the $1 bill. The Painter's Chair is an eloquent narrative of how America's first painters toiled to create an art worthy of the new republic, and the hero whom they turned into an icon.
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| Title of eBook: The Painter's Chair | |
| Release Date: 07-01-2009 | |
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Press |
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The Painter's Chair
Chapter One
John Smibert's Shade
We were a long time blundering about the ocean. -Dean George Berkeley, 1729
I.
1729 ... Boston Harbor ... The Province of Massachusetts Bay
When he stepped ashore at Long Wharf, the Scots-born John Smibert expected his stay would be brief. America was new to him after a harsh Atlantic crossing and brief visits in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Newport, Rhode Island. He imagined Boston would be just another stopover on his way to his final destination, the island of Bermuda. There he and his benefactor, George Berkeley, planned to launch what both men hoped would be a beneficent adventure.
The Anglo-Irish philosopher and churchman-Berkeley was the dean of Derry-had hatched a plan for a college in America. Back in London, he had offered Smibert the professorship of drawing, painting, and architecture at the proposed school, where they planned "to Instruct the European and Indian children in the Christian faith, & necessary educations." For Smibert, a man of fragile health and deep religious faith, the life of a don on the idyllic isle of Bermuda promised to be a happy escape from the intense competition back in Britain's capital. But the great experiment could not begin until the arrival of the promised
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