Comparison and contrast between and Gilbert Stuart s Ann Penn Allen and Lorenzo Lotto s Saint
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This study will examine the lives of painters Gilbert Stuart and Lorenzo Lotto, and will focus on a description and comparison of two portraits by those painters, Stuart's "Ann Penn Allen" and Lotto's "Saint Jerome Penitent". Provided first will be a brief biographical background of each artist followed by the description and comparison of each artists work.
Gilbert Stuart was born in North Kingston, Rhode Island in 1755. After briefly studying in Newport with a Scottish portrait painter named Cosmo Alexander he traveled to London in 1775. While there he studied under Benjamin West, a famous portrait painter of the time. After establishing himself as a fashionable portrait painter in London he returned to the United States in 1792. Out of the nearly 1,000 portraits he painted in his lifetime, he is most often associated with his portrait of George Washington dubbed the "Athenaeum" portrayal. Although he created over 100 copies of the infamous Washington print, it was not the only presidential painting he created. Throughout the years he also painted portraits of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and King George III and IV. After settling in Boston, Massachusetts in 1805 he lived out the rest of his life until he died on July 9, 1828...