John Quincy Adams - The Enhanced Daguerreotypes

John Quincy Adams sat for photographer Philip Haas in 1843 that resulted in three daguerreotypes being produced. The first, is the well-known historical image of JQA. The second, was given by Adams to Congressman Horace Everett and remained hidden within the Everett family lost to history until it resurfaced in 2017 when a direct descendant put it up for auction with Sotheby’s. The third daguerreotype remains unaccounted for.

This video shows the colorization and enhancement of these daguerreotypes.

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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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