What did the Founding Fathers and Presidents look like? Can we know for certain? See the Real Faces!

What did the founding fathers look like? What did other early historic figures really look like? Can we know for certain?

We primarily know them and others by the surviving engravings, drawings, paintings and sculptures housed in our museums and historical sites. But are they accurate? Or, do they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists?

Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject.

Thanks to the work of sculptor’s John Henri Isaac Browere and Jean-Antoine Houdon we have a variety of life masks of famous early Americans giving us the chance to see their true likeness. Featured here are the RECONSTRUCTED life masks and more of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Dolley Madison, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Marquis de Lafayette and Henry Clay.

This video not only contains the reconstructed life masks of these historic figures but also facial animations. We also get to see what they might have looked like in daguerreotypes and photographs. See the real face of James Madison at his Montpelier home. See the real face of Thomas Jefferson at his Monticello home.

Have camera, will travel. Take a trip back in time and enjoy seeing the REAL faces of these historic figures.

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00:00 - Intro
01:51 - George Washington
02:21 - John Adams
02:56 - Thomas Jefferson
03:49 - James Madison
04:53 - Dolley Madison
05:43 - John Quincy Adams
06:38 - Martin Van Buren
07:09 - Marquis de Lafayette
08:17 - Henry Clay
08:45 - Credits/Subscribe

▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures.
Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs.

To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject.

Website: https://yarbs.net/

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