03 December 2010

Happy Birthday, Stuart.

Gilbert Stuart, John Adams, ca. 1800/1805

Although the second president was a patient sitter, the impish painter later delighted in telling a friend, "Isn't it like? Do you know what he is about to do? He is about to sneeze!" (Both the artist and the sitter habitually used snuff.)

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