Portrait of John Jay, by Gilbert Stuart, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Wikicommons)
Gilbert Stuart’s (1755-1828) second life portrait of George Washington, the engraving of which graces our $1 bill, is perhaps the world’s most-seen face. Painted in 1796, Gilbert deliberately left it unfinished so he could use it as the starting point for replicas (called the Athenaeum Washington, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.).
Stuart’s first life portrait of Washington (called the Vaughan Washington) was painted a year earlier, 1795, but Gilbert didn’t like it, and he erased it.
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