Gilbert Stuart in England and Ireland

(12) Quoted in Hugh R. Crean, "Gilbert Stuart and the Politics of Fine Arts Patronage in Ireland, 1787-1793: A Social and Cultural Study" (Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1990: microfilm U.M.I., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1992). p. 102.

(13) London World, April 1, 1788 ("Press Cuttings from English Newspapers on Matters of Artistic Interest, 1686-1825," Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

(14) See correspondence from the Irish historian Anthony P. W. Malcomson to Margaret Stenz, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Missouri, May 24, 1993 (curatorial files, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art).

(15) See Jane, countess of Normanton, to her cousin, Sir George Macartney, June 16, 1787 (D/572/9/9. Macartney papers, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast).

(16) Herbert, Irish Varieties, for the Last Fifty Years, p. 247.

(17) Quoted ibid., p. 248.

(18) Quoted ibid.

CARRIE REBORA BARRATT is curator of American paintings and sculpture and manager of the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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