James Madison (1750/51–1836)

1835

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 30 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (76.8 × 64.1 cm)
Framed: 40 in. × 34 3/4 in. × 4 in. (101.6 × 88.3 × 10.2 cm)

Gift of the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts

1858.10

This portrait was commissioned by Luman Reed as a part of Durand's series of the first seven presidents of the United States. Durand may have chosen to copy the likeness executed by Stuart rather than his own portrait of two years earlier because the latter represented the subject in old age while Stuart's image of 1804 was made when Madison was an active member of society and government in Washington.

ProvenanceLuman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.

Depicts

portraits

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Published ReferencesElla M. Foshay, Mr. Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: A Pioneer Collection of American Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1990), 141, 144

N-YHS RR Negative Number 6128

Object NamePortrait