File:James Monroe White House portrait 1819.jpg

Summary

Samuel Finley Breese Morse: Portrait of James Monroe

Artist



Alternative names	pseudonym: Brutus
Description	American inventor, physicist, sculptor, painter, university teacher and photographer "en:Morse code"
Date of birth/death	27 April 1791	2 April 1872
Location of birth/death	Charlestown (Massachusetts)	Manhattan
Work period	1820 –1871
Work location	France; Italy; London; Boston; New York City; Charleston
Authority file	: Q75698 VIAF: 2530161 ISNI: 0000000080818611 ULAN: 500026460 LCCN: n50070284 NAID: 10582241 WorldCat

Title

Portrait of James Monroe

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

Portrait of James Monroe, The White House Historical Association

Date

circa 1819

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 75.2 cm (29.6 in); width: 62.6 cm (24.6 in)

Collection

White House

	Native name	White House
	Parent institution	White House Complex
	Location	1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, Washington, D.C. 20500 United States
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 52″ N, 77° 02′ 12″ W
	Established	1792
	Website	whitehouse.gov
	Authority file	: Q35525 VIAF: 155235437 ULAN: 500312779 LCCN: sh85146483 NAID: 10676368 NLA: 49682301 WorldCat

Notes

White House copy of the 1819 painting Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008:"...President James Monroe looks like a man in early middle age, although he was 61 when Morse painted him..."The genesis of this portrait was a commission for a full-length portrait from the City of Charleston, South Carolina... In anticipation of [Monroe's visit to Charleston,] the first presidential visit [to that city] since that of Washington, the Common Council on March 1, 1819, resolved to "'solicit James Monroe ... to permit a length likeness to be taken [i.e., painted] for the City of Charleston ... .'" The bust-like portrait was finished on December 18... . "The White House painting is assumed to be the replica for [Monroe's] daughter ... Morse took the life portrait with him to Charleston where he produced a full-length portrait for the city... ."

Source/Photographer

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/james-monroe

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