Browere's Presidents Founding Fathers Life Masks Tour - Real Faces at Fenimore Art Museum

John Henri Isaac Browere's Life Masks of the Presidents, Founding Fathers

Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. owns a unique collection of life masks cast from the actual faces of famous Americans by John Henry Isaac Browere (1790-1834).

Welcome to a short tour of Fenimore’s life masks of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Marquis de Lafayette.

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00:00 - Intro
00:17 - Thomas Jefferson
00:31 - John Adams
00:50 - Thomas Jefferson
00:57 - James Madison
01:03 - Marquis de Lafayette
01:24 - James Madison
01:46 - Thomas Jefferson
01:59 - Subcribe & End Screen

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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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