Stuart Portraits Shipped Back to Boston
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PrintThe Gilbert Stuart Portraits of George and Martha Washington, on display at the National Portrait Gallery since 1980, are shipped to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This agreement, that the Museums share the portraits, and exhibit them on a rotating basis, was part of the plan worked out in 1980 when the two museums jointly purchased the paintings from the Boston Athenaeum.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
March, 1983