George Washington (After Gilbert Stuart), 19th C. Oil on Canvas gift for sportsman and deeply carved ears

and deeply carved ears

so would have worked more like a marionette--though his long flat feet seem definitely designed for tapping

and how the cup sits on it like on a pedestal

7 7/8" across at base

George Washington (After Gilbert Stuart), 19th C. Oil on Canvas gift for sportsman and deeply carved earsFound just in the time for the 4th of July, this folk portrait of George Washington, based I believe of the earliest of Gilbert Stuart's Washington portraits: the Gibbs Channing Avery portrait, c. 1795. I love variations on a theme, and portraits of Washington are a great example many many out there, all a little different, and of interest at least as much for what they reveal about the painter as the subject. I love the glow y softness of this one,