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Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828)
Anna Payne Cutts, 1804
Oil on canvas; 29 1/16 x 24 1/8 in. (73.8 x 61.3 cm)
The White House, Washington
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Eleven years younger than her sister Dolley, Anna Payne (1779–1832) sat for Stuart about the time of her marriage to Richard Cutts, congressman from Massachusetts. She and Stuart reportedly enjoyed her sittings and discussed his belief that the nose was the telling feature of the face. He then mischievously formed the billowing curtain behind her—a fixture in portraits of the time—into a caricature of his own profile.
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