Elizabeth Stuart (née Blackstone)

Inscriptionback to top

The original backing is inscribed: Mrs Elizabeth Stuart/the Wife of/James Stuart Esq/surnamed/Athenian/Born: 12 August 1762/Maried [sic] at the Age 17/Died 30 Novemr 1799.

This portraitback to top

Dated by the sitter’s dress and apparent age. Presented by her son, with the miniature of her husband (NPG 55a), as ‘painted at the same time by the same artist’, [1] but NPG 55b is of lower quality and appears to have been painted later as a pendant (there is a comparably discreet architectural setting).

Footnotesback to top

1) Letter to Scharf, 29 November 1858 (NPG archive).

Physical descriptionback to top

Blue eyes, dark hair dressed with pearls and a pink ribbon, wearing a plum-coloured dress.

Provenanceback to top

Presented by the sitter’s son, Lt. James Stuart RN, 1858.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.