Portraits of Andrew Jackson

This is a list of portraits of Andrew Jackson, who was the seventh president of the United States.

Paintings

Image Date Age Artist Institution Technique Notes
1815 48 Nathan Wheeler ? Oil on canvas There are no known images of Andrew Jackson before 1815,[1] this was painted from life in 1815 after the battle of New Orleans[2][3]
1817 50 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl National Portrait Gallery
1817 50 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
1819 52 Samuel Lovett Waldo Metropolitan Museum of Art Oil on canvas
1819 52 Samuel Lovett Waldo Historic New Orleans Collection Oil on canvas
1819 52 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Andover Academy Oil on canvas According to biographer Robert V. Remini, Waldo produced one of the "better likenesses" of Jackson[4]
1819 52 Charles Willson Peale The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania of The Grand Lodge F. & A. M. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Oil on canvas
1819 52 Rembrandt Peale Maryland Historical Society Oil on canvas Commissioned by the city of Baltimore[5]
1819 52 Anna Claypoole Peale Yale University Art Gallery Watercolor on ivory Painted in Washington, D.C. while Jackson was there defending himself in Congress against charges of misconduct in the First Seminole War[6]
1819 52 John Wesley Jarvis Metropolitan Museum of Art Oil on canvas Commissioned by the city of New York;[7] Remini considered this a "romantic portrait"[4]
c. 1822 55 Possibly Matthew Harris Jouett[8] Oil on wood panel
1824 57 Thomas Sully Painted from life, "the original 1824 study was privately owned by Mrs. Breckenridge Long in 1940, but its current location is unknown."[9]
1828 57 Asher B. Durand New York City Hall Oil[10] "After John Vanderlyn," collection of New-York Historical Society, New York[11]
1828 61 Joseph Wood Original image lost (?)
1830 63 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl DAR Museum[12] Oil on canvas[13] "The Jockey Club Portrait"[12] Jackson is sitting in a chair ordered by James Monroe from Pierre-Antoine Bellange, in the distance is the U.S. Capitol with the "Bullfinch dome," which is distinct from the present dome.[13]
1830 63 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl Private collection[12] "Farmer Jackson" portrait[12]
1828–1833 61–66 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Nashville "Tennessee gentleman" portrait[12]
1832 65 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl North Carolina Museum of Art
1833 66 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
1833 66 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Nashville Andrew Jackson Astride Sam Patch
1832–35 65–68 William James Hubard
1835 68 Samuel M. Charles "Miniature" Per biographer Robert V. Remini, he was "refusing to wear his dentures" when he sat for this portrait[14]
1835 68 David Rent Etter [d] Second Bank Portrait Gallery, Independence National Park, Philadelphia Depicts Jackson, seated at the White House, pointing a copy of the Proclamation to the People of South Carolina[15]
1835 68 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
1835 68 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Nashville
1836 69 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
1836–37 69–70 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl Smithsonian Museum of American Art "The National Picture," possession transferred to museum from U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia[12]
1837 70 Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
1840 73 Miner Kilbourne Kellogg
January 1840 73 Jacques Amans
1840 73 Edward Dalton Marchant Union League of Philadelphia (?)[1]
1840 73 James Tooley Jr. "After Marchant"
1840 73 Trevor Thomas Fowler [d] National Portrait Gallery

Photographs

Image Date Age Artist Technique Notes
1840? J. E. Moore of New Orleans was "reported in March of 1842 as practicing the daguerrean art at the rooms of Madame Berniaud at the corner of Baronne and Canal streets. Specimens of the daguerreotype on view at his rooms included a likeness of General Andrew Jackson."[16]
1844–45 77–78 Possibly by Edward Anthony, copy made by Mathew Brady[17] Half-plate gold-tone daguerreotype
1844–45 77–78 Possibly by Edward Anthony, copy made by Mathew Brady Half-plate gold-tone daguerreotype
April 15, 1845 78 Dan Adams, enlarged by Charles Truscott[18] Daguerreotype This version hand-tinted; per Remini this image captures Jackson "bloated, grumpy, formally attired, and propped up against a pillow"[8]

Posthumous

Image Date Artist Institution Technique Notes
1845 Thomas Sully National Gallery of Art
1845 Thomas Sully Corcoran Gallery of Art
1857 Thomas Sully United States Senate Collection Oil on canvas mounted on board Based on a study from life done in 1824[9]

Notable engravings and lithographs

Image Date Artist Notes
? James Barton Longacre "After Sully"
? James Barton Longacre "After J. Wood"
? James Barton Longacre "After Earl, 1826"
September 28, 1829 James Barton Longacre "Drawn from life"
1845 Currier & Ives Lithograph, posthumous
U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Miscellaneous

Image Date Artist Notes
1828 William James Hubard Cut-paper silhouette

References

  1. ^ a b "Who's Who?". AMERICAN HERITAGE. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  2. ^ "Putting a Face on the Man (1815–1821) | The Historic New Orleans Collection". www.hnoc.org. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  3. ^ "Andrew Jackson". America's Presidents: National Portrait Gallery (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  4. ^ a b Remini (1977), illustration insert
  5. ^ "Andrew Jackson by Rembrandt Peale (1819)". Baltimore City Life Collection, lent by Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. Maryland Center for History and Culture.
  6. ^ "Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) | Yale University Art Gallery". artgallery.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  7. ^ Jarvis, John Wesley (1819), General Andrew Jackson, retrieved 2024-12-30
  8. ^ a b Remini, Robert Vincent (1984). Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845. Internet Archive. New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-015279-6.
  9. ^ a b "Andrew Jackson" (PDF). govinfo.gov.
  10. ^ "Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), (painting)". siris-artinventories.si.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  11. ^ Stephens (2018), p. 188.
  12. ^ a b c d e f Stephens (2018), illustration insert.
  13. ^ a b "Collections Object Detail". Daughters of the American Revolution. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
  14. ^ Remini, Robert Vincent (1984). Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845. Internet Archive. New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-015279-6.
  15. ^ Gobetz, Wally (2008-06-01), Philadelphia - Old City: Second Bank Portrait Gallery - Andrew Jackson, retrieved 2024-12-31
  16. ^ Smith, Margaret Denton (1979). "Checklist of Photographers Working in New Orleans, 1840–1865". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 20 (4): 393–430. ISSN 0024-6816. JSTOR 4231938.
  17. ^ "Daguerreotypes: Andrew Jackson". WHHA (en-US). Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  18. ^ "Portrait of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)". Tennesseans Through the Lens: Portrait Photography in Tennessee. 2023-11-21.

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