Author: John Quincy Adams
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The life portraits of John Quincy Adams : the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, City of Washington, 1970
Author: John Quincy Adams
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The Life Portraits of John Quincy Adams
Author: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
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Category : Portraits
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Portraits
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The life portraits of John Quincy Adams
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Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife
Author: Andrew Oliver
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674691520
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This volume affords a visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings. The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenance of each of their works. A chronology of John Quincy Adams' life for each period accompanies the chapter to which it pertains. Information about the size of each likeness, the inscriptions if any, the date executed, and present ownership where known is summarized in the List of Illustrations. The Adams's, as they watched themselves age over the years in the marble, ink, or oil of the artists who portrayed them, recorded much by way of commentary on the artistic talent and process at hand. The author makes use of the diaries and correspondence preserved in the Adams Papers, thus combining a learned appreciation with an intimate glimpse of Adams's as they saw themselves.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674691520
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This volume affords a visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings. The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenance of each of their works. A chronology of John Quincy Adams' life for each period accompanies the chapter to which it pertains. Information about the size of each likeness, the inscriptions if any, the date executed, and present ownership where known is summarized in the List of Illustrations. The Adams's, as they watched themselves age over the years in the marble, ink, or oil of the artists who portrayed them, recorded much by way of commentary on the artistic talent and process at hand. The author makes use of the diaries and correspondence preserved in the Adams Papers, thus combining a learned appreciation with an intimate glimpse of Adams's as they saw themselves.
The Life Portraits of John Quincy Adams
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The Life Portraits of John Quincy Adams [Washington, 1970].
Author: Marvin Sadik
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The Life Portraits of John Quincy Adams
Author: National Portrait Gallery (Washington).
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The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham
Author: E. Maurice Bloch
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The Stranger and the Statesman
Author: Nina Burleigh
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060002425
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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"After Smithson's death, nineteenth-century American politicans were given the task of securing his half-million dollars - the equivalent today of fifty million - and then trying to determine how to increase and diffuse knowledge from the muddy, brawling new city of Washington. Burleigh discloses how Smithson's bequest was nearly lost due to fierce battles among many clashing Americans - Southern slavers, state's rights advocates, nation-builders, corrupt frontiersmen, and Anglophobes who argued over whether a gift from an Englishman should even be accepted. She also reveals the efforts of the unsung heroes, mainly former president John Quincy Adams, whose tireless efforts finally saw Smithson's curious notion realized in 1846, with a castle housing the United States' first and greatest cultural and scientific establishment."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060002425
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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"After Smithson's death, nineteenth-century American politicans were given the task of securing his half-million dollars - the equivalent today of fifty million - and then trying to determine how to increase and diffuse knowledge from the muddy, brawling new city of Washington. Burleigh discloses how Smithson's bequest was nearly lost due to fierce battles among many clashing Americans - Southern slavers, state's rights advocates, nation-builders, corrupt frontiersmen, and Anglophobes who argued over whether a gift from an Englishman should even be accepted. She also reveals the efforts of the unsung heroes, mainly former president John Quincy Adams, whose tireless efforts finally saw Smithson's curious notion realized in 1846, with a castle housing the United States' first and greatest cultural and scientific establishment."--BOOK JACKET.
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Works by artists born before 1816
Author: Detroit Institute of Arts
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Showcases great collection of American painting; Library Journal Starred review.
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Showcases great collection of American painting; Library Journal Starred review.