Gilbert Stuart, American
It Wasn’t Easy Raising Six Kids on a George Washington Impersonator’s Salary, But Somehow They Made It Work, ca. 1785
Oil on canvas
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/// Stuart posed The Todd Family with care.
Brunette daughter thinks he was unfair
not to have “fixed” her bangs,
so she sulks, (not harangues).
“I should never have cut my own hair!”
/// Though she knew that her bangs were a wreck,
daughter still kept her anger in check.
Gilbert Stuart had fame
so she’s loath to cast blame.
Miss Todd hated to stick out her neck.
/// Males wear jackets— some dark, others bright.
All four females wear virginal white.
Yet one trait they all share:
Born with shining gold hair,
it grows darker, then gray (or takes flight).
/// The four youngest kids cling to their mother.
She’s reluctant to birth yet another,
so they’re kept by her side
day and night. Thus she tried
her man’s husbandly urges to smother.
/// Gil’s Athenæum Portrait allowed
Washington to “emerge from a cloud.”
Though the painting’s unfinished,
fame remains undiminished.
(George’s look-alike sits with a crowd.)