Excerpt from Masters in Art, a Series of Illustrated Monographs, Vol. 7: January, 1906; Part 73, Stuart
It is generally supposed that the manner here given of spelling the family name was owing to the carelessness of the clerk who made the entry, but, as a matter of fact, signatures of the snuff-grinder that have come down to us show that he himself spelled his name in this way. Another thing to be noted in this baptismal record is that the painter's name, frequently written Gilbert Charles Stuart, is entered simply as Gilbert Stuart, and if, as tradition has it, the Charles was later inserted because of his father's loyalty to bonnie Prince Charlie, Stuart himself did not long retain it.
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