George Washington (After Gilbert Stuart), 19th C. Oil on Canvas standing object but it was originally created

but it was originally created (in the second half of the 19th century I believe) to house a cricket

with these elegantly pointing legs

with old handmade ones like this one priced quite dearly

mosquitoes

George Washington (After Gilbert Stuart), 19th C. Oil on Canvas standing object but it was originally createdFound just in the time for the 4th of July, this folk portrait of George Washington, based I believe of the earliest of Gilbert Stuart's Washington portraits: the Gibbs Channing Avery portrait, c. 1795. I love variations on a theme, and portraits of Washington are a great example many many out there, all a little different, and of interest at least as much for what they reveal about the painter as the subject. I love the glow y softness of this one,