The Real Faces of Dolley Madison - The Enhanced Daguerreotypes and a Life Mask

Dolley Madison Life Mask Reconstruction and Enhanced Daguerreotypes. These images of Dolley Madison are re-touched and enhanced from high-resolution scans taken of the original daguerreotypes located at the Greensboro History Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The life mask of Dolley was cast by J. I Browere in 1825 at her Montpelier home in Virginia. Dolley's mask is the only one Browere cast of a woman and is located at Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. Her mask is currently not on display to the public. See more of my work with Dolley and James Madison at yarbs.net

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00:00 - Intro
00:04 - Dolley Madison Daguerreotype 1
00:12 - Dolley Madison Daguerreotype 1
00:32 - Dolley Madison Life Mask
00:44 - 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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