Lansdowne Portrait by Gilbert Stuart (1796)

American artist, Gilbert Stuart's point of view for creating this image was pretty unique. He was lucky in the way that he got to spend a lot of time with Washington since he was Washington's main artist that would paint him frequently. Some of the most famous paintings of Washington were painted by Stuart. In an article by the Met Museum, it said " Gilbert Stuart possessed abundant natural talent which he devoted to the representation of human likeness and character" This depicts that he would frequently paint people in their 'natural habitat'. This painting was created to show us as Americans and to show our standards, our character, and our ideals. We are represented (from Washington alone) as civilized and hard working. Nothing like how European rulers were like back in this time. The intended audience was for the entire world to see how we were back then, to represent us as proud.