Artists Who Drew Washington From Life

A Research Guide

Books

Cooper, Helen A. John Trumbull : the hand and spirit of a painter. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982. ISBN 0894670247. ND237 .T8 A4 1982.

Eisen, Gustav. Portraits of Washington (In three volumes.) volume one, Portraits in oil painted by Gilbert Stuart.
- volume two, Portraits in oil painted by Charles Willson Peale and others; also miniatures, crayons, charcoal and line drawings by James Sharples, C.B.J.F. de Saint Memin and others.
- volume three, Sculptured portraits including statues, busts, reliefs, and masks, in wax, marble, and plaster. New York : Lisiecki Press, 1932. E312.43 .E37.

Fabian, Monroe H. Joseph Wright : American artist, 1756-1793. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1985. ND1329 .W76 A4 1985.

George Washington, Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor : a brief history of the most famous sculpture created of ... Providence, Rhode Island : The Gorham Company, 1931. E312.45 .G85.

George Washington bicentennial historical loan exhibition of portraits of George Washington and his associates also a collection of Washingtoniana at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. (Exhibition catalog.) Assembled by the United States George Washington Commission Bicentennial Commission : Washington, D.C., 1932.

Knox, Katharine McCook. The Sharples : their portraits of George Washington and his contemporaries : a diary and an account of the life and work of James Sharples and his family in England and America. New York : Kennedy Graphics, Inc., 1972. ISBN 03067715295. ND497 .S445 K6.

McLanathan, Richard. Gilbert Stuart. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1986. ISBN 0810915014.

Miles, Ellen G. George and Martha Washington : portraits from the Presidential years. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1999. ISBN 0813918863. N7628 .W3 M5 1999.

- Saint Memin and the neoclassical profile portrait in America. Washington, DC : National Portrait Gallery, 1994. ISBN 1560984112. NE650 .S33 A4 1994. .

Miller, Lillian B. In pursuit of fame : Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution, 1992. ISBN 0295972432.

Mitnick, Barbara J., general editor. George Washington : American symbol. New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1999. ISBN 1555951481. E312.4 .G46 M57 1999.

Morgan, John Hill and Mantle Fielding. The life portraits of Washington and their replicas. Philadelphia : privately printed, 1931. E312.43 .M85.

Rasmussen, William M.S. and Robert S. Tilton. George Washington : the man behind the myths. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999. E312.17 .R37 1999.

Reaves, Wendy Wick. George Washington, an American icon: the eighteenth-century graphic portraits. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Charlottesville, Va. : Distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 1982. ISBN 0865280150.

Richardson, Edgar P., et al. Charles Willson Peale and his world. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1982. ISBN 0810914786. ND237 .P27 A4 1983.

Sizer, Theodore. The works of Colonel John Trumbull, artist of the American Revolution. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1950. ND237 .T8 S5 1950.

Stewart, Robert G. Robert Edge Pine : a British portrait painter in America, 1784-1788. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution, 1979. ND1329 .P47 A4 1979.

Articles

Beach, Walter and Allen. "Adolph Ulrich Wertmüller: Swedish-American painter. A brief biographical sketch and selected list of paintings and sources on his life and works." Unpublished essay, 1988, revised 1991.

Blodgett, Richard. "What did George Washington really look like?" Antiques World. 2 (October 1980): p.42-49.

Hart, Charles Henry "Life portraits of George Washington". McClure's Magazine 8 (February 1897): 4, p.291-308 .

Knutson, Lawrence L. "Washington on view: first president pestered by portraitists." The New York Times , Sunday, March 14, 1999. (Review of the exhibition, "George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the presidential years" at the National Portrait Gallery.)

Laughon, Helen and Nel. "Shadow portraits of George Washington." Antiques (February 1986): p.402-409.

Wainwright, Nicholas B. "The Powell portrait of Washington by Joseph Wright." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 96 (October 1972) 4, p.419-423.

Stabler, H.S. "Two unpublished portraits of Washington: I, the Ramage Miniature." The century illustrated monthly magazine (February 1894): 544-547.