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Alexander Stuart

Alexander Charles Stuart (1831 - 1898) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / Scotland.  Alexander Stuart is known for Marine-ship portrait painting.

Born in Scotland, Alexander Stuart became a painter of ship portraits who was listed in the census as living in New York in 1860. From 1863 to 1866, he served in the U.S. Navy and then spent the remainder of his life living along the Delaware River area near Philadelphia, Camden, Wilmington, etc.

He worked for shipbuilders but was an alcoholic. In 1884, he advertised himself as a gynecologist.

Often he signed his works simply as Stuart with a monogram of an anchor.

Source: Peter Falk, WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICAN ART
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Alexander Stuart was born in Scotland on June 2, 1831. He received his early schooling in Glasgow, and later attended the Rugby School, England. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, receiving one degree in draftsmanship and one in medicine. Afterwards, Stuart traveled extensively with the British Royal Navy, visiting Australia and all parts of Europe.

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