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- Edward Pennington, b. 1766-1834,
. Artist: Gilbert Stuart. Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Medium: Oil Painting on Canvas. 1802.
Painting Size: 24" inches wide by 30" inches high.
Description: Head to waist portrait of a middle aged, pink cheeked man, short cropped grey-black hair, long at the back. Edward is wearing black jacket with a high collar, and a white 'turtle neck' type shirt with a white neck handkerchief at tied around the neck. He is also wearing glass and holds a paper with a red wax seal. - PJA 2011
. . Helena Lawrence Holmes Penington 1803
Artist: Gilbert Stuart. Location: Private collection. Medium: Oil Painting on Canvas.
Painting Size: 24" inches wide by 30" inches high.
Description. Lady is seated in a circular red velvet chair, hands on lap. Hair and clothing are in the Empire style. Blond hair, braided on top, large gold loop earrings. Helena is wearing a cream coloured, with lace around the low cut bodice and a she has a black lace shawl off the shoulders.
Gilbert Stuart is widely considered to be one of America's foremost portraitists. His best known work, the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, was begun in 1796 and left incomplete at the time of Stuart's death in 1828. Gilbert Stuart was born in Saunderstown, Rhode Island & in 1793, settling briefly in New York City. He moved to Boston in 1805, continuing in critical acclaim and financial troubles. In 1824 he suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed. - - -
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1766 - 1834 (68 years)