GILBERT STUART 1755-1828 PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON Measurements: 28 by 23.25in. Alternate Measurements: (71.1 by 59.1 cm) oil on panel Painted circa 1805-10. Provenance: John Jacobs, Chester County, Pennsylvania (said to have been presented to the Jacobs family in exchange for supplies furnished to Washington's troops during the Revolution) Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Jacobs, Jr. (his great- grandson), Norristown, Pennsylvania Jonce I. McGurk, New York, 1921 ( acquired from the above) G.M. Heckscher, Esq., New York (acquired from the above) Metropolitan Galleries, New York, 1929 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nash Field, Chicago, Illinois, 1932 By descent to the present owner Exhibited: Kansas City, Missouri, Findlay Galleries, Stuart to Henri, January-February 1935 Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, February 1935 Literature and References: Mantle Fielding, Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Washington, 1923, no. 91, p. 212 Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart, New York, 1926, vol. 2, no. 88, pp. 886-87 John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1931, no. XXXVI, p. 328 Gustavus A. Eisen, Portraits of Washington, New York, 1932, vol. I, pp. 175, 180 Chicago Tribune, September 13, 1932, p. 11, illustrated Denver Post; Detroit News; Milwaukee Journal; Oklahoma City Times; Omaha World Herald; San Antonio News; St. Paul Dispatch; St. Paul News; Syracuse Herald, September 13, 1942 Oshkosh News; Salt Lake City Tribune, September 14, 1932 Chicago Herald and Examiner, September 15, 1932, p. 10 Chicago American, September 16, 1932, illustrated The New York Times, September 25, 1932, illustrated The Art News, December 24, 1932, pp. 3, 9, illustrated The Chicago Daily News, January 5, 1935, p. 6, illustrated The Art News, February 9, 1935, p. 8 Hobbies, February 1935, p. 20 Chicago Sunday Tribune, January 26, 1936, illustrated part 7, page 8 Note: A volume of newspaper clippings and other documents relating to the history of this work will accompany the lot.