Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-07-03 | Page 4 | Anecdotes of Related Wehle Treatise

K Kay ay ow Anecdotes of terest Related S Treatise B r filbert Gilbert lbert Stuart blunt spoken stained painter of some 3 most famous por- por C to execute his first last miniature Is told by sip JB In American ures ure 1730 1850 a handsome 0 contaIning over por- por Just published be Boston of the early nine- nine Century century Sarah Goodridge simple but earnest ures Gilbert Stuart became juris ted d in her work as she visited his studio to miniature copies of his por- por t It Jt is through her that to paint his minla- minla One ne day she was in his working away over a min min- copy after his portrait of LI l Knox After watching herg her g methods for a while Stuart Stuarta a and taking up af a f Ivory for the first time lIfe set about to show lature should be painted lIly illy he took for his sube sub- sub e one which hud Irad been isa Goodridge so EO much trou- trou he e miniature which reITs reT re- re J ITs T now privately owned in It consists merely of rectangular r piece of ivory r rapidly painted h head had ad placed the upper left corner am and nough background patched the head relief the work worl of an ar a ai r n i oils says Mr s a piece of min mm- painting as any in the his his- fr art In America quickly America quickly o painted with scarcely olor on the ivory yet the thel l I InT J strong relief and mar mar- Lv subtle In C construction