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38-839: Stevens High School may refer to: in the United States (by state) Stevens High School (New Hampshire) , in Claremont, New Hampshire Stevens High School (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Stevens High School (South Dakota) , in Rapid City, South Dakota John Paul Stevens High School , San Antonio, Texas See also [ edit ] Stevens School (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

76-414: A gymnasium , and another annexation in the back, which holds two floors of classrooms and the cafeteria. The school has no student parking facilities and relies on the city's parking spaces along the median in front of the building, as well as street parking along Broad Street and Summer Street. Owing to its central location, the school does not have its own athletic fields, and instead has an agreement with

114-487: A benefit exhibition of Stuart's works in August 1828 in an effort to provide financial aid for his family. More than 250 portraits were lent for this critically acclaimed and well-subscribed exhibition. This also marked the first public showing of his unfinished 1796 Athenæum portrait of Washington . By the end of his career, Gilbert Stuart had painted the likenesses of more than 1,000 American political and social figures. He

152-541: A living and pursue his painting career, but to no avail, so he returned to Newport in 1773. Stuart's prospects as a portraitist were jeopardized by the onset of the American Revolution and its social disruptions. Although he was a patriot , he departed for England in 1775 following the example set by John Singleton Copley . His painting style during this period began to develop beyond the relatively hard-edged and linear style that he had learned from Alexander. He

190-522: A permanent trust of $ 10,000 to help with the financial administration of the school. Stevens died in 1872, leaving his daughters $ 10 million in inheritance, which allowed his daughter Mary (also known as Minnie) to become a wealthy socialite in London society and marry General Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget . Stevens added $ 40,000 to his trust for the high school. He also donated life-size portraits of George Washington and Daniel Webster , which still hang on

228-404: A rival, it belied the prevailing opinion that Stuart "made a tolerable likeness of a face, but as to the figure, he could not get below the fifth button'". Stuart said that he was "suddenly lifted into fame by a single picture". The prices for his pictures were exceeded only by those of renowned English artists Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough . Despite his many commissions, however, he

266-553: A series of iconic portraits, each of them leading to a demand for copies and keeping him busy and highly paid for years. The most famous and celebrated of these likenesses, the Athenaeum portrait, is portrayed on the United States one-dollar bill . Stuart painted about 50 reproductions of it. However, he avoided completing the original version. After finishing Washington's face, he kept it to make copies which he sold for $ 100 each. Thus

304-569: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Stevens High School (New Hampshire) In the 1850s, the city of Claremont approached the state Legislature asking permission to build a public high school. At the time, public high schools did not exist in New Hampshire. The state agreed, and decided to offer permission to every town in the state so that every town could establish public high schools. Paran Stevens then made his offer to fund 50% of

342-431: Is located in a single building on the corner of Broad and Summer streets in downtown Claremont. The front of the building is the original structure, built in 1868, which consists of three floors of classrooms (including lab facilities for science classes) and administrative offices. It has been renovated several times over the years. Behind this are two expansions, one in the middle that includes three floors of classrooms and

380-1012: The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. , the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia , the National Portrait Gallery in London , Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts , and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts . Stuart was born on December 3, 1755, in Saunderstown , a village of North Kingstown in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , and he was baptized at Old Narragansett Church on April 11, 1756. He

418-536: The " Famous Americans Series " commemorating famous artists, authors, inventors, scientists, poets, educators, and musicians. Gilbert Stuart is found on the 1 cent issue in the artists category, along with James McNeill Whistler , Augustus Saint-Gaudens , Daniel Chester French , and Frederic Remington . Today, Stuart's birthplace in Saunderstown , Rhode Island , is open to the public as the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum. The birthplace consists of

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456-989: The $ 20,000 cost of development. Stevens was a Claremont native who was the manager of the Tremont House hotel in Opera House Square, the precursor to the Moody Hotel. He eventually became the most well-known hotelier in America, managing the New England, Revere House , and the Tremont House in Boston, as well as the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City, among others. He was the grandfather of British humanitarian Louise Paget . The centrally-located, nearly two-acre lot on which

494-405: The building sits originally housed the homestead of politician George B. Upham . The original school building contained four classrooms, a basement for heating and facilities, and a function hall on the top floor. In 1868, the citizens of Claremont voted to name the school after Stevens. Its original enrollment was 98 students, taught by 4 faculty and principal Dr. Nathan Barrows. Stevens established

532-468: The city of Claremont to use the city's facilities at neighboring Monadnock Park and Barnes Park. The school offers five Advanced Placement classes, leading to the AP Exam: Calculus II, Language and Composition, Literature and Composition, U.S. History, and Physics II. During the 2000–2001 school year, Stevens High School moved from a seven period day to a standard 4 x 4 block schedule, though it

570-494: The engraving's sale. He settled briefly in New York City and pursued portrait commissions from influential people who could bring him to Washington's attention. In 1794, he painted statesman John Jay , from whom he received a letter of introduction to Washington. In 1795, Stuart moved to the Germantown section of Philadelphia , where he opened a studio, and Washington posed for him later that year. Stuart painted Washington in

608-1287: The high school. Stevens also offers courses in conjunction with the local Sugar River Regional Technical Center, and specific courses that offer credit within the Community College System of New Hampshire Stevens High School's colors are red and black, and its mascot is the cardinal . The school's recognized fight song is "Glory to Stevens", sung to the melody of "Glory to Dartmouth", the fight song of nearby Dartmouth College . Its varsity sports include baseball, football, softball, basketball (boys and girls), golf, spirit team, cross country, skiing, swimming, field hockey, soccer (boys and girls), tennis, track & field, and bowling (co-ed). The school's extracurricular activities include Amnesty International, Interact, Color Guard, Jazz Band, Stevenaires, St. Paul's Summer Program, Key Club, Literary Club, Fall Production, Comedic Acting, Senior Play, Honors Theater, Musical Theater, National Honor Society, Environmental Club, Envirothon Team, Newspaper (Journalism), Student Council, Peer Outreach, Project Challenge, Boy's State, Girl's State, Granite State Challenge, and Quiz Bowl. Gilbert Stuart Gilbert Stuart ( né Stewart ; December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828)

646-489: The image for decades (1918 to 2023). The painting was jointly purchased by the National Portrait Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1980, and is generally on display in the National Portrait Gallery. Another celebrated image of Washington is the full-length Lansdowne portrait , now in the National Portrait Gallery. Its historical importance is almost matched by an early forgery based on it which

684-413: The impression of "luminous, transparent flesh" with color coming from beneath. The face seemed to be embued with life, while the beauty of its coloring conveyed a spiritual quality to contemporaries. Although uneven, he could produce astonishingly strong likenesses. John Henri Isaac Browere created a life mask of Stuart around 1825. In 1940, the U.S. Post Office issued a series of postage stamps called

722-729: The merchant field. In Newport, he first began to show great promise as a painter. In 1770, he made the acquaintance of Scottish artist Cosmo Alexander , a visitor to the colonies who made portraits of local patrons and who became a tutor to Stuart. Under the guidance of Alexander, Stuart painted the portrait Dr. Hunter's Spaniels when he was 14; it hangs today in the Hunter House Mansion in Newport. In 1771, Stuart moved to Scotland with Alexander to finish his studies; however, Alexander died in Edinburgh one year later. Stuart tried to maintain

760-402: The oldest continually active high school alumni association in the country. Stevens High School built its first addition in 1909, due to its increased student body of 156. The front of the building was expanded, adding a laboratory, classroom, a manual training room in the basement, and a headmaster's office. Enrollment quickly grew to 217 by 1914, and the building was expanded again. Enrollment

798-401: The original house where he was born, with copies of his paintings hanging throughout the house, as well as a separate art gallery in which are displayed several original paintings by both Gilbert Stuart and his daughter Jane. The museum opened in 1931. Gilbert Stuart's paintings of Washington, Jefferson, and others have served as models for dozens of U.S. postage stamps. Washington's image from

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836-462: The original portrait remained in its unfinished state at the time of his death in 1828. An engraver at the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing , George Frederick Cumming Smillie , made an etching of the painting which was used on multiple banknotes. A vignette of the portrait appears on the 2 silver dollar bill of 1899, and the one dollar note of (1918 to 2023). United States one-dollar bills featured

874-611: The painting has appeared on the United States one-dollar bill for more than a century and on various postage stamps of the 19th century and early 20th century. Stuart produced portraits of about 1,000 people, including the first six Presidents . His work can be found today at art museums throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Frick Collection in New York City ,

912-487: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stevens_High_School&oldid=487998916 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

950-541: The walls of the auditorium, and a Chickering concert grand piano. The portrait of Washington is influenced by Gilbert Stuart 's Lansdowne portrait , and the portrait of Webster is based on one by Albert Gallatin Hoit that originally hung in the Revere House . Graduates of Stevens High School formally established an Alumni Association in 1882. It has been continually active ever since, holding annual reunions, and claims to be

988-555: Was an American painter born in the Rhode Island Colony who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists. His best-known work is an unfinished portrait of George Washington , begun in 1796, which is usually referred to as the Athenaeum Portrait . Stuart retained the original and used it to paint scores of copies that were commissioned by patrons in America and abroad. The image of George Washington featured in

1026-426: Was at 434 in 1929, and a third subsequent expansion added an annex of fifteen classrooms, a gymnasium, and a remodel of the auditorium and older portions of the building. The building did not need another major renovation until 1962, with the baby boomers entering high school. The student body was nearly 600 at the time, prompting a new cafeteria, improved gymnasium facilities, and twelve new classrooms. The final annex

1064-575: Was changed back during the 2024-2025 school year. All class periods are 45 minutes in length, meeting 7 times per week. One credit is granted for each class that meets daily for a full year. One half credit is granted for a class that meets daily for one semester. A minimum of 20 credits is required for graduation along with 48 hours of community service. With approval from faculty and administrations, juniors and seniors are allowed to take one course (per Dartmouth term) at nearby Dartmouth College , provided they have already exhausted curricular alternatives at

1102-447: Was extended along the back of the building. SHS was an early concert location for the band Aerosmith in 1971. The school was renovated extensively in the 1990s due to accreditation issues. Its most recent renovation, completed in 2014, cost more than $ 12.6 million and restored original hardwood floors and other architectural elements, brought the facilities up to code, and addressed many long-standing structural issues. The school

1140-517: Was habitually neglectful of finances and was in danger of being sent to debtors' prison . In 1787, he fled to Dublin, Ireland where he painted and accumulated debt with equal vigor. Stuart ended his 18-year stay in Britain and Ireland in 1793, leaving behind numerous unfinished paintings. He returned to the United States with a particular goal of painting a portrait of George Washington and having an engraver reproduce it and provide for his family through

1178-628: Was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame . In 1824, Stuart suffered a stroke which left him partially paralyzed, but he continued to paint for two years until his death in Boston on July 9, 1828, at 72. He was buried in the Central Burial Ground at Boston Common . Stuart left his family deeply in debt, and his wife and daughters were unable to purchase a grave site. He was, therefore, buried in an unmarked grave which

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1216-491: Was known for working without the aid of sketches, beginning directly upon the canvas. His approach is suggested by the advice which he gave to his pupil Matthew Harris Jouett : "Never be sparing of colour, load your pictures, but keep your colours as separate as you can. No blending, tis destruction to clear & bea[u]tiful effect." Although this is an exaggeration to avoid muddiness, Stuart's colors were remarkably fresh. At Stuart's best, he had an extraordinary ability to convey

1254-466: Was praised for the vitality and naturalness of his portraits, and his subjects found his company agreeable. John Adams said: Speaking generally, no penance is like having one's picture done. You must sit in a constrained and unnatural position, which is a trial to the temper. But I should like to sit to Stuart from the first of January to the last of December, for he lets me do just what I please, and keeps me constantly amused by his conversation. Stuart

1292-535: Was purchased cheaply from Benjamin Howland, a local carpenter. His family recovered from their financial troubles 10 years later, and they planned to move his body to a family cemetery in Newport. However, they could not remember the exact location of his body, and it was never moved. There is a monument for Stuart, his wife, and their children at the Common Burying Ground in Newport. The Boston Athenæum held

1330-768: Was purchased for the White House . This painting was rescued during the Burning of Washington in the War of 1812 thanks to the efforts of First Lady Dolley Madison and Paul Jennings , one of President James Madison 's slaves . Three replicas of the original portrait are accepted as by Stuart. Additional copies were painted by other artists. In 1803, Stuart opened a studio in Washington, D. C. Stuart moved to Devonshire Street in Boston in 1805, continuing in both critical acclaim and financial troubles. He exhibited works locally at Doggett's Repository and Julien Hall . Predictably, he

1368-523: Was sought out for advice by other Amertican artists, such as John Trumbull , Thomas Sully , Washington Allston , and John Vanderlyn . Stuart married Charlotte Coates around September 1786; she was 13 years his junior and "exceedingly pretty". They had 12 children, five of whom died by 1815 and two others of whom died in their youth. Their daughter Jane (1812–1888) was also a painter. She sold many of his paintings and her replicas of them from her studios in Boston and Newport, Rhode Island . In 2011, she

1406-418: Was the third child of Gilbert Stuart, a Scottish immigrant employed in the snuff -making industry, and Elizabeth Anthony Stuart, a member of a prominent land-owning family from Middletown, Rhode Island . Stuart's father owned the first snuff mill in America, which was located in the basement of the family homestead. Stuart moved to Newport, Rhode Island , at the age of six, where his father pursued work in

1444-548: Was unsuccessful at first in pursuit of his vocation, but he became a protégé of Benjamin West in 1777 and studied with him for the next six years. The relationship was beneficial, with Stuart exhibiting for the first time at the Royal Academy in spring of 1777. By 1782, Stuart had met with success, largely due to acclaim for The Skater , a portrait of Sir William Grant . It was Stuart's first full-length portrait and, according to

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