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Charles Francis Adams
Anson Dickinson (born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852)
1827
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sight 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. (7.3 x 6.0 cm) rectangle
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry L. Milmore
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) was the son of John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams. His youth was spent in St. Petersburg and Paris, until his father was recalled to become secretary of state. After graduating from Harvard in 1825, he spent the next three years unemployed in Washington, D.C. He was elected to the Massachusetts legislature and the U.S. Congress, and was appointed minister to the Court of St. James’s in London. He also found time to publish ten volumes of the writings of his famous grandfather, John Adams. Charles’s son, Henry Adams, would also achieve prominence as a chronicler of the Gilded Age.
