John Jay By Gilbert Stuart Up Close Tank Top

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John Jay was a Founding Father of the United States, and the country's first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was also one of the three writers of the "Federalist Papers," along with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. This is an "up close" photograph of a portrait of John Jay painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1794. If you would like to see an image of the complete painting, a photograph of it precedes this one in my gallery and can be accessed by clicking on the above "PREV" (for "Previous"). The painting was photographed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...