Artist: George Caleb Bingham, Sitter: John Quincy Adams, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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John Quincy Adams

George Caleb Bingham (20 Mar 1811 - 7 Jul 1879)

c. 1850, from an 1844 original

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
Stretcher: 76.2 × 63.5cm (30 × 25")
Culture
United States
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery
Credit line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; frame conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women's Committee
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Smithsonian Institution

About this work

Sixth president, 1825–1829