Art Image Details
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
| Title: | Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams |
|---|---|
| Artist: | Stuart, Gilbert |
| Date of Work: | 1821 - 1826 |
| Medium/Support: | oil on canvas |
| Measurements: | 30 1/16 x 25 in (76.4 x 63.5 cm) |
| Inscribed: | No |
| Acquisition Information: | Gift of John Q. Adams |
| Acquisition Number: | 971.676.1 |
| Credit Line: | The White House Historical Association (White House Collection) |
| Scholar's Notes: |
"This portrait, together with Stuart's 1818 likeness of Louisa's husband, John Quincy Adams, descended in the family to a great-great-grandson, who presented both of the works to the White House. . . . "Louisa Adams was about 50 when this incisive head was painted. The rest of her long life was divided between Quincy, Massachusetts, and Washington . . . Stuart's portrait is definitive in simultaneously presenting "the Madam" of Henry Adam's childish memory--'a little more remote than the President, but more decorative . . . her delicate face under . . . very becoming caps'--as well as the image he later knew to be as true, of a woman whose interior life was 'one of severe stress and little pure satisfaction.'" |
| Source of Scholar's Notes: | Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008. |
| Page Number(s) in Source: | 94 |
| People: | Adams, Louisa |
| Categories: | White House Art Collection, Images of First Ladies |
| Type: | portraits |
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