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Gilbert Stuart: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

James Thomas Flexner, Gilbert Stuart: A Great Life in Brief (1955); Charles Merrill Mount, Gilbert Stuart: A Biography (1964); Richard McLanathan, Gilbert Stuart (1986).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Jul 05, 2026
Article revised. Dec 22, 2025
Anniversary information added. Nov 29, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Apr 10, 2024
Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Gilbert Stuart. Mar 28, 2022
Replaced media. Nov 22, 2021
Add new Web site: The Athenaeum - Gilbert Stuart - Artworks. Dec 15, 2016
Add new Web site: ART UK - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Dec 15, 2016
Add new Web site: Official Site of Gilbert Stuart Museum. Oct 18, 2013
Added photographs. May 20, 2013
Add new Web site: National Gallery of Art - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Feb 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Art UK - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Feb 04, 2013
Add new Web site: U.S. Department of State - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Feb 04, 2013
Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Feb 04, 2013
Add new Web site: UShistory.org - Historic Germantown - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Feb 04, 2013
Add new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Feb 04, 2013
Added complete birth location: Saunderstown, Rhode Island colony (now in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, U.S.). Apr 22, 2009
Added new Web site: Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Jan 27, 2009
Added new Web site: Web Gallery of Art - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Jan 27, 2009
Added new Web site: National Gallery of Art - Biography of Gilbert Stuart. Oct 13, 2006
Article revised. Sep 14, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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