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	This is a list of portraits of ], who was the seventh president of the United States.		This is a list of portraits of ], who was the seventh president of the United States.

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	\|There are no known images of Andrew Jackson before 1815,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web \|title=~~Who’s~~ Who? \|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/whos-who \|access-date=2024-12-30 \|website=AMERICAN HERITAGE \|language=en}}</ref> this was painted from life in 1815 after the battle of New Orleans<ref name=":0">{{Cite web \|title=Putting a Face on the Man (1815–1821) {{!}} The Historic New Orleans Collection \|url=https://www.hnoc.org/virtual/andrew-jackson/putting-face-man-1815%E2%80%931821 \|access-date=2024-12-30 \|website=www.hnoc.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|title=Andrew Jackson \|url=https://americaspresidents.si.edu/es/object/npg_1917.1.DUP8 \|access-date=2024-12-30 \|work=America's Presidents: National Portrait Gallery \|language=es}}</ref>		\|There are no known images of Andrew Jackson before 1815,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web \|title=Who's Who? \|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/whos-who \|access-date=2024-12-30 \|website=AMERICAN HERITAGE \|language=en}}</ref> this was painted from life in 1815 after the battle of New Orleans<ref name=":0">{{Cite web \|title=Putting a Face on the Man (1815–1821) {{!}} The Historic New Orleans Collection \|url=https://www.hnoc.org/virtual/andrew-jackson/putting-face-man-1815%E2%80%931821 \|access-date=2024-12-30 \|website=www.hnoc.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|title=Andrew Jackson \|url=https://americaspresidents.si.edu/es/object/npg_1917.1.DUP8 \|access-date=2024-12-30 \|work=America's Presidents: National Portrait Gallery \|language=es}}</ref>
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	\|Per biographer ], he was "refusing to wear his ]" when he sat for this portrait<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Remini \|first=Robert Vincent \|url=https://archive.org/details/andrewjacksoncou0000remi/mode/1up \|title=Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845 \|date=1984 \|publisher=New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row \|others=Internet Archive \|isbn=978-0-06-015279-6}}</ref>		\|Per biographer ], he was "refusing to wear his ]" when he sat for this portrait<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Remini \|first=Robert Vincent \|url=https://archive.org/details/andrewjacksoncou0000remi/mode/1up \|title=Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845 \|date=1984 \|publisher=New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row \|others=Internet Archive \|isbn=978-0-06-015279-6}}</ref>
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			\|Depicts Jackson, seated at the White House, pointing a copy of the ]<ref>{{Citation \|last=Gobetz \|first=Wally \|title=Philadelphia - Old City: Second Bank Portrait Gallery - Andrew Jackson \|date=2008-06-01 \|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2554221653 \|access-date=2024-12-31}}</ref>
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			\|Painted from life when Jackson was near death, painted a portrait of ] during the same sittings<ref name=":5">{{Cite web \|title=The Hermitage, home of Old Hickory, by Stanley F. Horn \|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026798523&seq=266 \|access-date=2025-01-05 \|website=HathiTrust \|language=en}}</ref>
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	\|J. E. Moore of New Orleans was "reported in March of 1842 as practicing the daguerrean art at the rooms of Madame Berniaud at the corner of Baronne and Canal streets. Specimens of the daguerreotype on view at his rooms included a likeness of General Andrew Jackson."<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Smith \|first=Margaret Denton \|date=1979 \|title=Checklist of Photographers Working in New Orleans, 1840–1865 \|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4231938 \|journal=Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association \|volume=20 \|issue=4 \|pages=393–430 \|issn=0024-6816}}</ref>		\|J. E. Moore of New Orleans was "reported in March of 1842 as practicing the daguerrean art at the rooms of Madame Berniaud at the corner of Baronne and Canal streets. Specimens of the daguerreotype on view at his rooms included a likeness of General Andrew Jackson."<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Smith \|first=Margaret Denton \|date=1979 \|title=Checklist of Photographers Working in New Orleans, 1840–1865 \|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4231938 \|journal=Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association \|volume=20 \|issue=4 \|pages=393–430 \|jstor=4231938 \|issn=0024-6816}}</ref>
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	\|Dan Adams, enlarged by Charles Truscott<ref>{{Cite journal \|date=2023-11-21 \|title=Portrait of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) \|url=https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/portraitphotography/2/ \|journal=Tennesseans Through the Lens: Portrait Photography in Tennessee}}</ref>		\|Dan Adams, enlarged by Charles Truscott<ref>{{Cite journal \|date=2023-11-21 \|title=Portrait of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) \|url=https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/portraitphotography/2/ \|journal=Tennesseans Through the Lens: Portrait Photography in Tennessee}}</ref>
	\|Daguerreotype		\|Daguerreotype
	\|This version hand-tinted; per Remini this image captures Jackson "bloated, grumpy, formally attired, and propped up against a pillow"<ref name=":3" />		\|This version hand-tinted; per Remini this image captures Jackson "bloated, grumpy, formally attired, and propped up against a pillow";<ref name=":3" /> possibly apocryphal story about Jackson's comment on the image: "Humph! Looks like a monkey!"<ref name=":5" />
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Latest revision as of 19:46, 5 January 2025

Notable images of 7th U.S. president

This is a list of portraits of Andrew Jackson, who was the seventh president of the United States.

Color key: Pre- and post-presidential portraits Presidential-era portraits

Paintings

Date	Age	Artist	Institution	Technique	Notes
1815	48	Nathan Wheeler	?	Oil on canvas	There are no known images of Andrew Jackson before 1815, this was painted from life in 1815 after the battle of New Orleans
1817	50	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	National Portrait Gallery
1817	50	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
1819	52	Samuel Lovett Waldo	Metropolitan Museum of Art	Oil on canvas
1819	52	Samuel Lovett Waldo	Historic New Orleans Collection	Oil on canvas
1819	52		Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Andover Academy	Oil on canvas	According to biographer Robert V. Remini, Waldo produced one of the "better likenesses" of Jackson
1819	52	Charles Willson Peale	The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania of The Grand Lodge F. & A. M. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia	Oil on canvas
1819	52	Rembrandt Peale	Maryland Historical Society	Oil on canvas	Commissioned by the city of Baltimore
1819	52	Anna Claypoole Peale	Yale University Art Gallery	Watercolor on ivory	Painted in Washington, D.C. while Jackson was there defending himself in Congress against charges of misconduct in the First Seminole War
1819	52	John Wesley Jarvis	Metropolitan Museum of Art	Oil on canvas	Commissioned by the city of New York; Remini considered this a "romantic portrait"
c. 1822	55	Possibly Matthew Harris Jouett		Oil on wood panel
1824	57	Thomas Sully			Painted from life, "the original 1824 study was privately owned by Mrs. Breckenridge Long in 1940, but its current location is unknown."
1828	57	Asher B. Durand	New York City Hall	Oil	"After John Vanderlyn," collection of New-York Historical Society, New York
1828	61	Joseph Wood			Original image lost (?)
1830	63	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	DAR Museum	Oil on canvas	"The Jockey Club Portrait" Jackson is sitting in a chair ordered by James Monroe from Pierre-Antoine Bellange, in the distance is the U.S. Capitol with the "Bullfinch dome," which is distinct from the present dome.
1830	63	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	Private collection		"Farmer Jackson" portrait
1828–1833	61–66	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Nashville		"Tennessee gentleman" portrait
1832	65	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	North Carolina Museum of Art
1833	66	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
1833	66	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Nashville		Andrew Jackson Astride Sam Patch
1832–35	65–68	William James Hubard
1835	68	Samuel M. Charles		"Miniature"	Per biographer Robert V. Remini, he was "refusing to wear his dentures" when he sat for this portrait
1835	68	David Rent Etter [d]	Second Bank Portrait Gallery, Independence National Park, Philadelphia		Depicts Jackson, seated at the White House, pointing a copy of the Proclamation to the People of South Carolina
1835	68	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
1835	68	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Nashville
1836	69	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
1836–37	69–70	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl	Smithsonian Museum of American Art		"The National Picture," possession transferred to museum from U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
1837	70	Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
1840	73	Miner Kilbourne Kellogg
January 1840	73	Jacques Amans
1840	73	Edward Dalton Marchant	Union League of Philadelphia (?)
1840	73	James Tooley Jr.			"After Marchant"
1840	73	Trevor Thomas Fowler [d]		National Portrait Gallery
1847? 1865?	?	George Peter Alexander Healy		National Portrait Gallery	Painted from life when Jackson was near death, painted a portrait of Sarah Yorke Jackson during the same sittings

Photographs

Date	Age	Artist	Technique	Notes
1840?				J. E. Moore of New Orleans was "reported in March of 1842 as practicing the daguerrean art at the rooms of Madame Berniaud at the corner of Baronne and Canal streets. Specimens of the daguerreotype on view at his rooms included a likeness of General Andrew Jackson."
1844–45	77–78	Possibly by Edward Anthony, copy made by Mathew Brady	Half-plate gold-tone daguerreotype
1844–45	77–78	Possibly by Edward Anthony, copy made by Mathew Brady	Half-plate gold-tone daguerreotype
April 15, 1845	78	Dan Adams, enlarged by Charles Truscott	Daguerreotype	This version hand-tinted; per Remini this image captures Jackson "bloated, grumpy, formally attired, and propped up against a pillow"; possibly apocryphal story about Jackson's comment on the image: "Humph! Looks like a monkey!"

Posthumous

Date	Artist	Institution	Technique	Notes
1845	Thomas Sully	National Gallery of Art
1845	Thomas Sully	Corcoran Gallery of Art
1857	Thomas Sully	United States Senate Collection	Oil on canvas mounted on board	Based on a study from life done in 1824

Notable engravings and lithographs

Date	Artist	Notes
?	James Barton Longacre	"After Sully"
?	James Barton Longacre	"After J. Wood"
?	James Barton Longacre	"After Earl, 1826"
September 28, 1829	James Barton Longacre	"Drawn from life"
1845	Currier & Ives	Lithograph, posthumous
	U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Miscellaneous

Image	Date	Artist	Notes
	1828	William James Hubard	Cut-paper silhouette

References

^ "Who's Who?". AMERICAN HERITAGE. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
"Putting a Face on the Man (1815–1821) | The Historic New Orleans Collection". www.hnoc.org. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
"Andrew Jackson". America's Presidents: National Portrait Gallery (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-30.
^ Remini (1977), illustration insert
"Andrew Jackson by Rembrandt Peale (1819)". Baltimore City Life Collection, lent by Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. Maryland Center for History and Culture.
"Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) | Yale University Art Gallery". artgallery.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
Jarvis, John Wesley (1819), General Andrew Jackson, retrieved 2024-12-30
^ Remini, Robert Vincent (1984). Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845. Internet Archive. New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-015279-6.
^ "Andrew Jackson" (PDF). govinfo.gov.
"Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), (painting)". siris-artinventories.si.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
Stephens (2018), p. 188.
^ Stephens (2018), illustration insert.
^ "Collections Object Detail". Daughters of the American Revolution. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
Remini, Robert Vincent (1984). Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845. Internet Archive. New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-015279-6.
Gobetz, Wally (2008-06-01), Philadelphia - Old City: Second Bank Portrait Gallery - Andrew Jackson, retrieved 2024-12-31
^ "The Hermitage, home of Old Hickory, by Stanley F. Horn". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
Smith, Margaret Denton (1979). "Checklist of Photographers Working in New Orleans, 1840–1865". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 20 (4): 393–430. ISSN 0024-6816. JSTOR 4231938.
"Daguerreotypes: Andrew Jackson". WHHA (en-US). Retrieved 2024-12-30.
"Portrait of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)". Tennesseans Through the Lens: Portrait Photography in Tennessee. 2023-11-21.

Sources

"Senate Art" (PDF). govinfo.gov.
Remini, Robert V. (1977). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-8018-5912-0. LCCN 77003766. OCLC 1145801830.
Stephens, Rachel (2018). Selling Andrew Jackson: Ralph E. W. Earl and the Politics of Portraiture. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-6111-7867-8. LCCN 2017041622. OCLC 1023818256. Project MUSE book 59054.

v t e Andrew Jackson
7th President of the United States (1829–1837) Senator from Tennessee (1797–1798, 1823–1825) Federal Military Commissioner of Florida (1821) U.S. Representative for Tennessee at-large (1796–1797)
Life	Slave-trading career Violent incidents Fatal duel Legal affairs Plantations: Poplar Grove Hunter's Hill The Hermitage
Colonization	Creek War Fort Strother Battle of Talladega Battles of Emuckfaw and Enotachopo Creek Battle of Horseshoe Bend Treaty of Fort Jackson Battle of Pensacola Arrest of Dominic Hall and Louis Louaillier Battle of New Orleans Jackson's Military Road Treaty of Doak's Stand Treaty of Tuscaloosa Jackson Purchase Treaty of Turkeytown First Seminole War Arbuthnot and Ambrister incident Adams–Onís Treaty Treaty of Moultrie Creek
Politics	1824 United States presidential election "Corrupt Bargain" 1828 United States presidential election 1828 Jackson campaign Coffin Handbills 1832 United States presidential election 1832 Democratic National Convention Establishment of the U.S. Democratic Party History of the U.S. Whig Party Anti-Jacksonian Party
Presidency	First inauguration Second inauguration State of the Union 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 Judicial appointments Taney Court Executive actions Vetoes Pardons Foreign policy First Sumatran expedition Snow Riot Assassination attempt Governance: Spoils system Petticoat affair Kitchen Cabinet Indian policy: Indian removal Indian Removal Act Trail of Tears Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty of New Echota Treaty of Pontotoc Creek Treaty of Payne's Landing Treaty of Chicago Treaty of Cusseta Black Hawk War Second Creek War Second Seminole War Supreme Court decisions: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Worcester v. Georgia Economic policy: Bank War Senate censure Banking in the Jacksonian Era Hard money Specie Circular Maysville Road veto Nullification crisis Tariff of 1832 Ordinance of Nullification Proclamation to the People of South Carolina Force Bill Tariff of 1833 Pet banks Panic of 1837
Family	Rachel Jackson Marriage controversy Andrew Jackson Jr. Acting First Ladies: Emily Donelson Sarah Yorke Jackson Wards: Edward G. W. Butler Andrew Jackson Donelson Daniel Smith Donelson A. J. Hutchings Indigenous "adoptees": Theodore Charley Lyncoya Jackson Poll (parrot)
Slavery	Jackson and slavery Gilbert Alfred Jackson Hannah Jackson
Public image	List of memorials to Andrew Jackson January 8 (holiday) "Half Horse and Half Alligator" "King Andrew the First" (1832) Portraits of Andrew Jackson Statues of Andrew Jackson Films about Andrew Jackson Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson U.S. military vessels named after Jackson Jackson Square (New Orleans) Andrew Jackson State Park (South Carolina) Andrew Jackson Centre (Ireland) Jefferson–Jackson Dinner Black Jack stamp USD$20 Jackson on other U.S. currency Confederate States dollar
Historiography	Jacksonian democracy Bibliography of Andrew Jackson Robert V. Remini § Andrew Jackson American Lion
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