The Lost Photographs of James and Dolley Madison - The Real Faces of the Founding Fathers!

What did James Madison Really Look Like? See the Lost Daguerreotypes of James and Dolley Madison.

Wait! No photographs of James Madison exist, you say.

This is true, but we can know what he really looked like, but not necessarily according to his painted portraits. Most portraits 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.

Thanks to the work of sculptor John Henry Isaac Browere, we have James and Dolley Madison's life masks, giving us the chance to see their true likenesses. According to James Madison, both his and Dolley's life masks were exact likenesses of themselves. He stated, “Per request of Mr. Browere, busts of myself and of my wife, regarded as exact likenesses, have been executed by him in plaster, being casts made from the moulds formed on our persons, of which this certificate is given under my hand at Montpelier, October 19th, 1825”

Now, see the reconstructed life masks of James and Dolley Madison come to life showing us what they most likely looked like in photographs and daguerreotypes.

The lost Photographs of James and Dolley Madison are part of a series entitled "The Lost Photographs of History based upon the reconstructed life masks of the American founding fathers, and other historical figures at yarbs.net Select images are available as high quality, archival Giclee prints.

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00:00 - Intro
01:21 - James Madison Life Mask Reconstruction
02:00 - James Madison Life Mask Animation
02:05 - Photographs and Daguerreotypes of James Madison
02:47 - Dolley Madison Life Mask Reconstruction
02:57 - Dolley Madison Life Mask Animation
03:06 - Photographs and Daguerreotypes of James Madison and Dolley Madison
03:35 - Credits and Information

▬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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