# Mary Louisa Adams

- By: Asher B. Durand (born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886)
- Date: 1835
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 24 x 20 1/8 in. (61.0 x 51.0 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Adams-Clement Collection, gift of Mary Louisa Adams Clement in memory of her mother, Louisa Catherine Adams Clement
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=7641)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/5663a87ee809bfa15cfb66ef62215a75.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Mary Adams was born in 1828 in the White House while her grandfather John Quincy Adams was president. Asher Durand emphasized her rosy cheeks and conveyed a more reserved personality than that of her younger sister, Georgianna Frances, whose portrait is also in the Luce Center collection.