What did James Madison Really Look Like? Real Faces of the Founding Fathers Based Upon Life Masks

See what 4th U. S President James Madison look like based upon his life mask and Asher Durand's 1833 portrait.
See the time-lapse reconstruction of Madison's life mask cast by J. I. Browere in 1825, facial animations, a new enhanced view of his face, as well as how he might have looked in daguerreotypes.

Unlike painted portraits, according to James Madison himself, his life mask was an exact likeness.
That Madison was satisfied with the result of Browere’s skill is shown by the following:“Per request of Mr. Browere, busts of myself and of my wife, regarded as exact likenesses, have been executed by him in plaister, being casts made from the moulds formed on our persons, of which this certificate is given under my hand at Montpelier, 19, October, 1825”.....James Madison

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00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Life Mask Time Lapse
00:56 - Enhanced View of James Madison
01:15 - James Madison Profile
01:26 - James Madison Daguerreotypes
02:02 - Life Mask Animations
02:32 - Credits
03:00 - Subscribe

▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

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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