By Bill Buell, The Daily Gazette - March 7, 2019

Gilbert Stuart was an extremely gifted artist, but not always a good businessman. In 1793, however, when the Irish threatened to throw him in debtor's prison, he made a sound financial decision by heading back to the U.S., where, he told a friend, "There I expect to make a fortune by Washington alone. I calculate upon making a plurality of his portraits." He ended up making more than 70, and one of those copies, the image used for the U.S. one dollar bill, is on display at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie...