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Gilbert Stuart
American, 1755–1828
Mrs. Adam Babcock (Martha Hubbard)
c. 1806
Stuart painted Martha Hubbard Babcock and her husband, Captain Adam Babcock, shortly after the artist moved to Boston at the invitation of the senator of Massachusetts. Stuart had gained considerable celebrity for his iconic images of George Washington and was widely considered one of America’s finest portrait painters.

Image Caption

Gilbert Stuart, Mrs. Adam Babcock (Martha Hubbard), c. 1806, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, gift of Sarah Higginson Begley, 1994.14
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
32 7/8 × 26 3/8 in. (83.5 × 67 cm) Frame: 40 3/8 × 34 3/8 × 4 1/4 in. (102.6 × 87.3 × 10.8 cm)
Object Number
1994.14
Acquisition
Gift of Sarah Higginson Begley, 1994
Status
On View

Select Bibliography

Barratt, Carrie Rebora and Ellen G. Miles. Gilbert Stuart.  Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.