John Quincy Adams Full Body Pose - The Treaty of Ghent - Real Faces of the Founding Fathers

A new image of John Quincy Adams in a striking full body pose in the suit he wore during the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, based upon his life mask.

Special thanks to the friendly and helpful staff at Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York for photographic access to the J.I. Browere life mask collection.

Special thanks to John Quincy Adams historical actor-interpreter Vincent Puliafico for the period dress images.

Life mask reconstructions and image colorizations by
Cheryl A. Daniel

© copyright 2022 Cheryl A. Daniel - Digital Yarbs

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00:00 - John Quincy Adams life masks
00:07 - The Treaty of Ghent
00:36 - 1914 Painting of the Treaty of Ghent by Sir Amédée Forestier
00:58 - John Quincy Adams Full Body Pose
01:48 - Credits

▬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.

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