Anna Payne Cutts (Ms. Richard Payne Cutts)

This portrait by Gilbert Stuart is of Anna Payne Cutts. Cutts was Dolley Payne Madison's younger sister and she sat for this portrait for Stuart at about the same time she married Richard Cutts, a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Rhode Island, Stuart was a renowned portraitist and is known for his portraits of many leading figures, including presidents George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.