What Did George Washington Really Look Like? Real Face Washington based upon his life mask

A Photoshop facial reconstruction of the life mask of George Washington. French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon cast the life mask of Washington in 1785.

According to George Washington’s Mount Vernon, “It took a transatlantic visit and a little flattery to encourage George Washington to sit for Jean-Antoine Houdon, one of the preeminent European sculptors of the 18th century.”3 Washington was not about to travel to Europe to sit for his life mask, nor did he have much time to do so in America. With a little persuasion from Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, Washington was convinced to sit for Houdon. “Appealing to Washington’s penchant for fastidious record-keeping, they stressed that it was imperative to document his likeness for posterity.

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I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures.
Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs.

To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject.

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