Ellen G. Miles

Curator and Chair, Department of Painting and Sculpture

 
   
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
MRC 973 PO Box 37012
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
 

milese@si.edu


B.A. (1964) Bryn Mawr College; M. Phil. (1970), Ph.D. (1976) Yale University


Research Interests

American and European portraiture, 1700-1865; Imagery in American portraits; Portraits of George Washington; patronage of portraiture in the colonial era and early republic


Current Research Projects

The work of Gilbert Stuart. Treaty Portraits in the Eighteenth Century.


Current or Projected Exhibits

"Capital Portraits," an exhibition of portraits from Washington area collections; early copyists of Stuart's portraits


Recent Publications

George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years (University Press of Virginia, 1999)

Biographies in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) of Joseph Badger (vol. 1, 857-58), Pierre Eugene Du Simitière (vol. 7, 169-170), John Hesselius (vol. 10, 706-707), Henrietta Johnston (vol. 12, 152-53), Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (vol. 19, 201-203), Edward Savage (vol. 19, 315-317), and James Sharples (vol. 19, 725-26).

A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery, with Carolyn Kinder Carr (National Portrait Gallery, distributed by the University Press of New England, 2001)

Contributor to the catalogue George Washington: A National Treasure, for the exhibition of the Lansdowne portrait of Washington by Gilbert Stuart (National Portrait Gallery, 2002)

Gilbert Stuart, by Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles (published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004)

 

Last update 7-22-09 e-mail: veenbaasp@si.edu