Ellen G. Miles
Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture

National Potrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Victor 410 MRC 973
Washington, DC 20013-7012
milese@si.edu

Education

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

Current 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)