Keywords: George Washington - by Gilbert Stuart - c. 1821 - National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.jpg Artwork Creator Gilbert Stuart Stuart painted five presidents -- George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison and James Monroe -- as part of a set commissioned by Colonel George Gibbs of Rhode Island These were some of the last paintings in Stuart's career Much later the Gibbs family sold the set to Thomas Jefferson Coolidge an ancestor of President Calvin Coolidge The Coolidge family sold the five portraits known as the Gibbs-Coolidge Collection to the National Gallery of Art in April 1979 1821 oil panel cm 6755 institution National Gallery of Art Gallery 60 A object history credit line Gift of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge IV in memory of his great-grandfather Thomas Jefferson Coolidge his grandfather Thomas Jefferson Coolidge II and his father Thomas Jefferson Coolidge III accession number 1979 5 1 http //www nga gov/collection/gallery/gg60aa/gg60aa-56916 html National Gallery of Art Washington DC http //www nga gov/image/a00002/a0000257 jpg Image PD-old-100-1923 1828 George Washington portraits by Gilbert Stuart American paintings in the National Gallery of Art 19th-century oil paintings in the United States Portrait paintings of men 1820s portrait paintings |