painting along the way from Naples to Sicily to Malta and back. As the legend goes, he was waiting for a pardon from Pope Urban VIII when one of his enemies finally caught up with him and killed him in Porto Ercole.
Gilbert Stuart, American painter who was one of the great portrait painters of his era and the creator of a distinctively American portrait style. He was especially known for an unfinished painting of George Washington. Learn more about Stuart’s life an
Gérard studied first under the sculptorAugustin Pajouand later with the painterJacques-Louis David, whose assistant he became after 1791. In 1793, at David’s request, he was named a member of the FrenchRevolutionary Tribunal, although he took no part in its fatal decisions. Known for the ...