The portraits also entail stories that the images ... Stuart made additional paintings of Washington as well as Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe.

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

The acquisition comes after the National Portrait Gallery bought the first known photograph of a US President - an 1843 daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams - in 2017.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG ... an 1843 daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams by Philip Haas, which was ...