AFA Summer 2018

Antiques & Fine Art 95 2018 Fig. 11: Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), Portrait of James Monroe, 1822. Oil on canvas, H. 40¼ x W. 32 inches. Looking glass and frame maker John Doggett loaned the city portraits of the first five presidents that he commissioned from Gilbert Stuart, which included this image of Monroe, the fifth president. They hung on the walls of the main reception room in Lafayette’s lodgings where the couch and piano were located. After the event, Doggett charged the city for regilding the frames as well as repairing the looking glasses he had also loaned. Metropolitan Museum of Art (29.89). Image © the Metropolitan Museum of Art.