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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Philadelphia waterfront, 1860, Alexander Charles Stuart as
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Born in Scotland, Alexander Stuart became a painter of ship portraits who was listed in the census as living in New York in 1860. From 1863 to 1866, he served in the U.S. Navy and then spent the remainder of his life living along the Delaware River area near Philadelphia, Camden, Wilmington, etc.
He worked for shipbuilders but was an alcoholic. In 1884, he advertised himself as a gynecologist.
Often he signed his works simply as Stuart with a monogram of an anchor.
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