CSPAN3 American Artifacts October 5, 2015
Up next in the second of a twopart program, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait paintings. In this program we feature the work of Gilbert Stuart. His unfinished portrait of George Washington is the image on the one dollar bill. Dianne hello, i am Dianne Stephens from the National Gallery of art. John is an artist who is well known for his history paintings in america, not as much portraiture. He aspired to be a history painter, then he eventually went to england and spent a couple of years with Benjamin West. West was an amazing figure who welcomed almost every painter t...
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