Reverend William Ellery Channing
What makes someone charismatic?
William Ellery Channing was a Unitarian minister, author, preacher, and mystic. He is remembered for his influence on the development of American literature—a group of New England writers who flourished in the mid-19th century were associated with the Unitarian movement, including Emerson, Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, and Holmes. Although Channing was of small physical stature, he was remembered as a preacher of extraordinary power and magnetism.
\ Artist
Gilbert Charles Stuart
After an impoverished childhood, Gilbert Charles Stuart received artistic instruction after begging the artist Benjamin West for a place in his studio. Stuart brushed off drawing and composition studies, disliking the use of elaborate poses and refusing to labor over details of dress, attributes, or backgrounds. Instead, he built his reputation as someone who, in the words of West, could “nail the face to the canvas,” and became one of the most highly regarded portraitists of his time.
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Oil on canvas
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd