Snuff mill at Gilbert Stuart Homestead, North Kingstown, RI
Operating water-powered snuff mill at birthplace of American artist Gilbert Stuart.
The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum by Walt Barrett ©2010
Gilbert Stuart was a famous colonial American painter best known for his portrait of George Washington that is on the one dollar bill. His home in Saunderstown Rhode Island, 02874, on Gilbert Stuart road is set on 23 beautiful acres with walking trails. a picnic area, and two museums. There are the homestead/Snuff Mill and the Grist Mill. Two water wheels, one for grinding corn and one for grinding snuff. Nancy and I spent one of the most enjoyable days in recent years exploring and filming this beautiful homestead. Do yourself a favor and take you children, or grandchildren to visit. Bring a picnic lunch and spend the day. You'll be glad you did! It's a lesson in sustainable living. Do it for the kids.
Walt Barrett - Filmmaker
Gilbert Stuart Alewives Run
The Gilbert Stuart Run in North Kingstown RI is annually the first location in the state where the anadromous alewives show up and spawn each spring. It's what usually breaks the cabin fever fishermen suffer each year waiting for another fishing season to begin. It's the arrival of these fish that sense spring is in the air and about to begin the Circle of Life all over again.
OUR TOWN: NORTH KINGSTOWN
Stories included in this documentary:
The NK Community Chorus, Old Salt, Papa Pilot, Harbor Master, The Little Red Schoolhouse, In Labor of Love, Alvin Noss, the Wickford Art Festival, the Gilbert Stuart Museum, Smith Castle and the Historic Wickford Village.
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) A collection of paintings 4K
Gilbert Charles Stuart (1755-1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists.
His best known work is the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, begun in 1796. Stuart retained the portrait and used it to paint 130 copies which he sold for $100 each.
The image of George Washington featured in the painting has appeared on the United States one-dollar bill for more than a century and on various U.S. postage stamps of the 19th century and early 20th century.
Gilbert Stuart was born on December 3, 1755 in Saunderstown, a village of North Kingstown in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was the third child of Gilbert Stewart, a Scottish immigrant employed in the snuff-making industry. Stuart's father owned the first snuff mill in America, which was located in the basement of the family homestead.
In 1771, Stuart moved to Scotland with Alexander to finish his studies; however, Alexander died in Edinburgh one year later. Stuart tried to maintain a living and pursue his painting career, but to no avail, so he returned to Newport in 1773.
Stuart's prospects as a portraitist were jeopardized by the onset of the American Revolution and its social disruptions. He departed for England in 1775 following the example set by John Singleton Copley. He was unsuccessful at first in pursuit of his vocation, but he then became a protégé of Benjamin West with whom he studied for the next six years. The relationship was beneficial, with Stuart exhibiting at the Royal Academy as early as 1777.
By 1782, Stuart had met with success, largely due to acclaim for The Skater, a portrait of William Grant. It was Stuart's first full-length portrait and, according to art historian Margaret C. S. Christman, it belied the prevailing opinion that Stuart 'made a tolerable likeness of a face, but as to the figure, he could not get below the fifth button'. Stuart said that he was suddenly lifted into fame by a single picture.
At one point, the prices for his pictures were exceeded only by those of renowned English artists Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Despite his many commissions, however, he was habitually neglectful of finances and was in danger of being sent to debtors' prison. In 1787, he fled to Dublin, Ireland where he painted and accumulated debt with equal vigor.
Stuart ended his 18-year stay in Britain and Ireland in 1793, leaving behind numerous unfinished paintings. He returned to the United States and settled briefly in New York City. In 1795, he moved to Germantown, Philadelphia where he opened a studio, and it was here that he gained a foothold in the art world and lasting fame with pictures of many important Americans.
Stuart painted George Washington in a series of iconic portraits, each of them leading to a demand for copies and keeping him busy and highly paid for years. The most famous and celebrated of these likenesses is known as The Athenaeum and is portrayed on the United States one-dollar bill. Stuart and his daughters painted a total of 130 reproductions of The Athenaeum. However, he never completed the original version; after finishing Washington's face, he kept the original version to make the copies. He sold up to 70 of his reproductions for a price of $100 each, but the original portrait was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1828. The painting was jointly purchased by the National Portrait Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1980, and is generally on display in the National Portrait Gallery.
Another celebrated image of Washington is the Lansdowne portrait, a large portrait with one version hanging in the East Room of the White House. This painting was saved during the burning of Washington by British troops in the War of 1812 through the intervention of First Lady Dolley Madison and Paul Jennings, one of President James Madison's slaves. Four versions of the portrait are attributed to Stuart, and additional copies were painted by other artists for display in U.S. government buildings. In 1803, Stuart opened a studio in Washington, D. C.
Stuart married Charlotte Coates about September 1786, who was 13 years his junior and exceedingly pretty. They had 12 children, five of whom died by 1815 and two others died while they were young. Their daughter Jane was also a painter. She sold many of his paintings and her replicas of them from her studios in Boston and Newport, Rhode Island.
In 1824, he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralyzed, but he still continued to paint for two years until his death in Boston on July 9, 1828 at 72. He was buried in the Old South Burial Ground of the Boston Common.
Stuart left his family deeply in debt, and his wife and daughters were unable to purchase a grave site. He was, therefore, buried in an unmarked grave which was purchased cheaply from Benjamin Howland, a local carpenter.
Gilbert Stuart Historic Site
Birthplace of Gilbert Stuart and mill operated by family
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00:01:04 1 Biography
00:01:13 1.1 Early life
00:02:39 1.2 England and Ireland
00:04:06 1.3 New York and Philadelphia
00:05:59 1.4 Boston, 1805–1828
00:06:30 1.5 Personal life
00:08:14 2 Legacy
00:10:08 3 Notable people painted
00:13:31 4 Portrait gallery
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Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart; December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists. His best known work is the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, begun in 1796. Stuart retained the portrait and used it to paint 130 copies which he sold for $100 each. The image of George Washington featured in the painting has appeared on the United States one-dollar bill for more than a century and on various U.S. postage stamps of the 19th century and early 20th century.Stuart produced portraits of more than 1,000 people, including the first six Presidents. His work can be found today at art museums throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, most notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Frick Collection in New York City, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the National Portrait Gallery, London, Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Hummel Report investigates North Kingstown's troubled waters
OCT. 15, 2017: For 20 years, a federal agency has told North Kingstown officials to remove dozens of commercial moorings from a portion of Wickford Harbor - moorings that have made two marina owners tens of thousands of dollars every year and allowed some boaters to bypass a 20-year waiting list for town-issued mooring.
This week Jim Hummel explains why that’s a violation of federal policy and has the story of one woman kicked off her mooring who has made it her mission to try and get it back - and to expose the town along the way. Story:
Kids Jumping into The Mouth of Narrow River, Narragansett, RI, USA
Narrow River flows into Narragansett Bay in coastal Rhode Island, USA. It's a favorite spot for boaters to anchor and play in the salty water and have picnics. This video shows children jumping into the mouth of Narrow River and running up the sandy banks of the river for more.
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Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart; December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists. His best known work is the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, begun in 1796. Stuart retained the portrait and used it to paint 130 copies which he sold for $100 each. The image of George Washington featured in the painting has appeared on the United States one-dollar bill for more than a century and on various U.S. postage stamps of the 19th century and early 20th century.
Stuart produced portraits of more than 1,000 people, including the first six Presidents. His work can be found today at art museums throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, most notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Frick Collection in New York City, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the National Portrait Gallery, London, Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Stuart married Charlotte Coates about September 1786, who was 13 years his junior and exceedingly pretty. They had 12 children, five of whom died by 1815 and two others died while they were young. Their daughter Jane (1812–1888) was also a painter. She sold many of his paintings and her replicas of them from her studios in Boston and Newport, Rhode Island. In 2011, she was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.
In 1824, he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralyzed, but he still continued to paint for two years until his death in Boston on July 9, 1828 at 72. He was buried in the Old South Burial Ground of the Boston Common.
Stuart left his family deeply in debt, and his wife and daughters were unable to purchase a grave site. He was, therefore, buried in an unmarked grave which was purchased cheaply from Benjamin Howland, a local carpenter. His family recovered from their financial troubles 10 years later, and they planned to move his body to a family cemetery in Newport. However, they could not remember the exact location of his body, and it was never moved. There is a monument for Stuart, his wife, and their children at the Common Burying Ground in Newport.
The Boston Athenæum held a benefit exhibition of Stuart's works in August 1828 in an effort to provide financial aid for his family. More than 250 portraits were lent for this critically acclaimed and well-subscribed exhibition. This also marked the first public showing of his unfinished 1796 Athenæum Head portrait of Washington.
John Adams said:
Speaking generally, no penance is like having one's picture done. You must sit in a constrained and unnatural position, which is a trial to the temper. But I should like to sit to Stuart from the first of January to the last of December, for he lets me do just what I please, and keeps me constantly amused by his conversation.
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Ninigret Pond Wetland Restoration
Ninigret Pond Wetland Dredging and Restoration Project, March 2017.
The second phase of the Restoration Project is nearing completion. Construction crews are working diligently, spreading out mounds of sand. The added height will protect the cord grass roots to be more tolerant of the rising tides.
Deep Hole Potters's Pond
Deep Hole / Potter's Pond in Matunuck, Rhode Island
Blue Angels North Kingstown, RI (May 2015)
Felicia and I kayaking Narrow River Kayak Narr RI
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River herring at Jay Cronan Fishing Access 1
River herring making a run at the concrete weir at the Jay Cronan Fishing Access area. One herring in this video clip makes it over the weir in the left corner.
Snug Harbor, Rhode Island
Going by salty brines' beach. Block Island ferry leaves from here daily.
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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.At its foundation, Brown was the first college in the U.S. to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation. Its engineering program was established in 1847. It was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887. In 1969, Brown adopted a New Curriculum sometimes referred to as the Brown Curriculum after a period of student lobbying. The New Curriculum eliminated mandatory general education distribution requirements, made students the architects of their own syllabus and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory or unrecorded no-credit. In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university; Pembroke Campus now includes dormitories and classrooms used by all of Brown.
Undergraduate admissions is highly selective, with an acceptance rate of 7.2% for the class of 2022. The university comprises the College, the Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health and the School of Professional Studies (which includes the IE Brown Executive MBA program). Brown's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the university is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design. The Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, offered in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that awards degrees from both institutions.
Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, Rhode Island. The University's neighborhood is a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of Colonial-era buildings. Benefit Street, on the western edge of the campus, contains one of the finest cohesive collections of restored seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture in the United States.As of August 2018, 8 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Brown University as alumni, faculty members or researchers. In addition, Brown's faculty and alumni include five National Humanities Medalists and ten National Medal of Science laureates. Other notable alumni include eight billionaire graduates, a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, four U.S. Secretaries of State and other Cabinet officials, 54 members of the United States Congress, 56 Rhodes Scholars, 52 Gates Cambridge Scholars 49 Marshall Scholars, 14 MacArthur Genius Fellows, 21 Pulitzer Prize winners, various royals and nobles, as well as leaders and founders of Fortune 500 companies.