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| Keywords: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams by Gilbert Stuart, 1821-26.jpg Artwork Creator Gilbert Stuart Louisa Adams c1821-26 oil on canvas cm 76 4 63 5 White House Washington D C United States White House copy of the painting Kloss William et al Art in the White House A Nation's Pride Washington D C The White House Historical Association 2008 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 Adams' 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 ' The White House Historical Association Other versions http //www whitehouseresearch org/assetbank-whha/action/viewAsset id 170 <gallery>File Louisa Adams jpg</gallery> PD-old-100 contrast fix 1821 portrait paintings Official First Lady painted portraits in the White House Gilbert Stuart Louisa Adams | ||||
