John+Adams

Date: 1826
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1950/1950.6.11_1a.jpg?itok=Ec_4224U width="256" height="313" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/john-adams-23450"]] || Title: **John Adams**

Artist: **Gilbert Stuart** Born: Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 Died: Boston, Massachusetts 1828

Medium: oil on canvas 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Adams-Clement Collection gift of Mary Louisa Adams Clement in memory of her mother, Louisa Catherine Adams Clement

Accession: 1950.6.11 || Cushioned in the protective corner of a cherry red sofa, John Adams sits with the dignity of an elder statesman. His direct gaze and bemused expression hint at his legendary intellectual prowess and strength of character. A major figure in the revolutionary government, Adams later served as second president of the United States and as a postwar diplomat. The portrait commemorates a lifetime of service to the new American nation.
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