painted A Still Life with Peaches and Grapes on a Marble Ledge in 1803-1889  Related Paintings of Johann Wilhelm Preyer :. | Gartenblumenstraub im Krug | Vase filled with flowers | A Still Life with Peaches and Grapes on a Marble Ledge | nuts and a glass on a marble ledge | Dessertfruchte mit Elfenbeinhumpen |
Related Artists:
DALMAU, Lluis
Spanish Early Renaissance Painter, active 1428-1461
Tattegrain Francis
French , Peronne 1852-Arras 1915
Gilbert Stuart
1755-1828 Gilbert Stuart was born in North Kingston, R.I., on Dec. 3, 1755. At the age of 13 or 14 he studied art with the Scottish painter Cosmo Alexander in Newport. With Alexander he made a tour of the South and a journey to Edinburgh, where Alexander died in 1772. For about a year Stuart remained, poverty-stricken, in Scotland, but finally, working as a sailor, he managed to get back to America. There he executed a few portraits in a hard limner fashion. With the Revolutionary War threatening, his family, who had Tory sympathies, fled to Nova Scotia, and Stuart sailed for London, where he remained from 1775 to 1787. For the first 4 or 5 years, Stuart served as the first assistant of American expatriate painter Benjamin West, who had rescued him from poverty. From the first, Stuart showed an interest only in portraiture and had no desire to go into the branch of history painting West practiced. After his apprenticeship, Stuart became London's leading portrait painter, next to Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, whose style he emulated, as in a rare full-length portrait of William Grant of Congalton as The Skater (ca. 1782). For a while Stuart lived in splendor, but being a bad businessman and a profligate spender, he was in constant debt. He lived in Ireland from 1787 to 1792 and then returned to America to make a fortune,