Gilbert Stuart, 1785 - Captain John Gell - fine art print

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This 18th century piece of art with the title "Captain John Gell" was made by the American painter Gilbert Stuart. The version of the masterpiece has the following size: 94 1/2 x 58 1/2 in (240 x 148,6 cm) and was painted with oil on canvas. This piece of art is in the the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is located in New York City, New York, United States of America. We are glad to reference that the public domain masterpiece is included, courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Dorothy Schwartz Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and 2000 Benefit Fund, 2000. Also, the work of art has the creditline: Purchase, Dorothy Schwartz Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and 2000 Benefit Fund, 2000. On top of that, alignment is in portrait format with a side ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width. The painter Gilbert Stuart was a North American artist, whose style can primarily be classified as Rococo. The Rococo painter lived for 73 years and was born in 1755 in North Kingstown, Washington county, Rhode Island, United States and deceased in the year 1828 in Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States.

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Original artwork information from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

In 1785 the British naval officer John Gell (1738–1806) had just completed his duty on the seventy-gun Monarca, which he had commanded in a series of battles against the French. For this portrait, Stuart used as a model Sir Joshua Reynolds’s heroic "Commodore Augustus Keppel" (1752; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK). In homage to Reynolds, Stuart employed a combination of fine and slapdash brushwork, conveying an image of both heroism and naturalism. He exhibited "Captain John Gell" at London’s Royal Academy of Arts in 1785, when the British portraitist John Hoppner commented that it was “admirably well-painted without trickery to dazzle the eye or mislead the judgment.”