HERE is another compelling portrait by Gilbert Stuart, a painting of Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846), the wife of Boston lawyer Perez Morton, who famously cheated on her with her sister. Mrs. Morton was known for her poetry, which she sometimes wrote under the pseudonym of Constantia. She lost three of her five children. The painting now belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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