. Art and artists of our time. ds, and looks nearly full-face at the background is the conventional curtain looped up to show a bit of landscape. On thetable are books, an inkstand, and an astronomical instrument—Mr. Hart suggests a theodoliteor a transit instrument; it may be one of those made by David Rittenhouse, Dr. Smithsacquaintance, a clockmaker of Norriton, who by his own efforts acquired a considerable repu-tation as an astronomer and as a maker of mathematical and astronomical instruments. Peale painted the portrait of Rittenhouse now in the possession of the Ameri
. Art and artists of our time. ds, and looks nearly full-face at the background is the conventional curtain looped up to show a bit of landscape. On thetable are books, an inkstand, and an astronomical instrument—Mr. Hart suggests a theodoliteor a transit instrument; it may be one of those made by David Rittenhouse, Dr. Smithsacquaintance, a clockmaker of Norriton, who by his own efforts acquired a considerable repu-tation as an astronomer and as a maker of mathematical and astronomical instruments. Peale painted the portrait of Rittenhouse now in the possession of the American Philo-sophical Society. Stuarts portrait of Provost Smith was painted in 1800, three years beforethe death of the doctor, who was born in 1727 and died in 1803. Stuart died in Boston in July, 1828, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. He had by hiswife, the daughter of Dr. Coates, of London, thirteen children, two of whom were born inEngland. Two of these children were sons, but they both died young. The elder had given. MRS. SAMUEL GATLIFF AND THE PICTURE BY GILBERT STUART. BY PERMISSION OF HER SON, DR. F. CAMPBELL STEWART. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 207 evidences of considerable talent. Several of the daughters were living at the time Dunlapwrote his account of Stuart, and one of them, Miss Jane Stuart, had been so well taught byher father that she came to be of great assistance to him in painting the backgrounds, acces-sories, and even the hands of his portraits. Stuart himself was a most prolific painter. Inthe catalogue of his works issued by the Boston Mixseum of Fine Arts, at the time of theStuart Exhibition, in 1880, there are seven hundred and forty-six portraits recorded, including
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