. Art and artists of our time. 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 Mixse
. Art and artists of our time. 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. FANNY KEMBLE. FROM THE ENGRAVING BY CHENEY, AFTER THE PAINTING BY THOMAS SULLY. sixty-one portraits of Washington. Since then eleven more have been discovered, seven inPhiladelphia and four in England. A few minor names may be inserted here, not so much for the intrinsic merit of theirwork, which, indeed, was but slight, as for the influence they had, one way or another, inkeeping alive in the minds of their countrymen a certain amount of interest in matters con-nected with art. The name of Mrs. Paitence Weight, an ingenious modeller in wax, and perhaps the firstperson in this country to attempt the art of sculpture, may be mentioned, rather, it must beconfessed, by title of curiosity and for her singular personality than for what she accom-plished in her profession. Her maiden name was Lovell, and she was born in Bordentown. Ill 2o8 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. New Jersey, in 1725, ten years earlier than Benjamin West. Like West, she was of Quakerparents, and lier opportunities were
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