Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Skater

The Skater

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Original – 1782 painting commissioned by a young man named William Grant. Due to inclement weather, Stuart and Grant skated instead of doing a sitting for the painting. Stuart later painted Grant's head at the studio, and completed the remainder of the portrait from memory.

Reason

High resolution (brushstrokes, excluding sfumato techniques, are visible), and visually intriguing (composition, period clothing, foreground/background, etc) painting by Gilbert Stuart (self portrait FP), painted in 1782. This painting is important and notable because it was not only his first successfully completed full-length portrait, it brought recognition to Mr. Stuart and allowed him to open up his own studio. (According to our article, this painting was completed at Benjamin West's studio.)

Articles in which this image appears

The Skater + 3 others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Gilbert Stuart

• Support as nominator --– Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 17:41, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support. Proportions seem right, I'm happy to trust the source as regards colour. It could probably be a little bigger (the original is nearly two and a half metres tall), but I'm happy that it's big enough. As far as I can see, it's a great candidate. J Milburn (talk) 23:12, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support - Looks solid, agree about resolution, love having notable paintings at FpC. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:48, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support Pretty much per Crisco. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:47, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support Also agree with resolution being a little on the low side, but exceeds standard set. Mattximus (talk) 14:38, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:GSskater.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:48, 22 August 2013 (UTC)