What Did John Quincy Adams Look Like Young ? Based Upon His LIFE mask. The Real Faces of the Founding Fathers De-Aged

A life mask de-aged. What did John Quincy Adams look like young?

When one thinks of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, an old bald man with grey mutton chops comes to mind. This is because of the widely circulated photograph of him taken in 1843 at the age of 76. Interestingly, he is the earliest President of whom we have a surviving photograph.

Unfortunately, this photograph and the resulting picture in our minds is not what Adams looked like when he was President from 1825 to 1829. As President, his hair was brown and he did not yet have his "signature" mutton chops.

So what did Adams look like during his presidency? Fortunately we have another true likeness of him taken by sculptor John Henri Isaac Browere in the form of a cast plaster life mask executed in Washington, D.C. in 1825.

Browere’s casting process utilized a proprietary plaster mixture that due to its lightweight nature did not distort the facial features of his subject’s face as the more common plaster utilized by his contemporaries did. This by all accounts resulted in what was considered an extremely accurate likeness.

The initial reconstructed life mask was done using Photoshop and shows how Adams most likely appeared in 1825 when he was 58 years old and in the first year of his presidency. That reconstruction shown below depicts Adams as he appeared when he was President with brown hair and no sideburns, or mutton chops as they were called in his time.

Next, using Photoshop and AI technology I have "de-aged" the reconstructed life mask of Adams back to his early 20's. I based Adam's hair style on the John Single Copley painting of him at age 29. Adams hair in that painted portrait appears to have some white powdering as was custom at this time period; however, we know his hair was dark brown from a portrait painted near the time of his presidency that shows him with brown hair.

Disclaimer: Per historical records, the original castings of Browere’s life masks are considered exact likenesses; however, the de-aging process despite all attempts to maintain historical accuracy, cannot guarantee that level of exactness.

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

00:00 - Intro
00:06 - The Daguerreotypes
00:36 - President Adams
00:45 - The Life Mask
01:27 - The De-Aged Life Mask
01:57 - Disclaimer
02:12 - Ending

▬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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