1. JJ sat for a portrait by the American painter Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) during his London visit. Neither version of Stuart’s portrait of JJ was completed or delivered at this time. Stuart pawned both when he went to Dublin three years later. John Trumbull later retrieved the portraits, possibly in 1794 when serving as JJ’s secretary in London during the negotiation of the Jay Treaty. Trumbull reportedly completed both portraits. He retained one that depicted JJ in a brown coat and waist-coat; subsequently engraved by Asher B. Durand as by Stuart and Trumbull, it has always been recognized as the work of both artists. It is now at the National Portrait Gallery (see frontispiece on p. iv). The second version, which JJ received, depicting him in a black silk suit, was long held by the Jay family and subsequently displayed in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U.S. Department of State (see frontispiece, JJSP, 2 description begins Elizabeth M. Nuxoll et al., eds., The Selected Papers of John Jay, Volume 2, 1780–82 (Charlottesville, Va., 2012) description ends : iv). That it too was finished by Trumbull was based on a statement of the Unitarian minister Horace Holley, who saw one of the portraits at Trumbull’s house in 1818, reported on Trumbull’s acquisition of the unfinished paintings from a broker, and stated neither was complete before that time. Stuart’s later portrait of JJ in his court robe, begun in 1794, was also partly unfinished, and apparently completed by another artist. Carrie Reborm Barratt and Ellen G. Miles, Gilbert Stuart (New Haven and London, 2004), 120–23.