Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Gilbert Stuart
Born: December 3, 1755
Died: July 9, 1828 (aged 72)
Bio: Gilbert Charles Stuart was an American painter from Rhode Island.
Known for:
- Lansdowne portrait (1796)
- The Skater (1782)
- Catherine Brass Yates (1794)
- Henrietta Marchant Liston (Mrs. Robert Liston) (1800)
- Ann Calvert Stuart Robinson (Mrs. William Robinson) (1804)