John Quincy Adams Facial Reconstruction and an Open Letter - Presidents Real Faces Life Masks

This video shows new life mask reconstructions of John Quincy Adams as well as new compositions of his life mask in period dress along with an open letter to Adams. Adams' life mask was cast in 1825 by John Henri Isaac Browere during Adams' presidency.

Special thanks to the friendly and helpful staff at Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York for photographic access to the J.I. Browere life mask collection.

Special thanks to John Quincy Adams historical actor-interpreter Vincent Puliafico for the period dress images.

Open letter to John Quincy Adams written by Jack Stanley

Life mask reconstructions and image colorizations by
Cheryl A. Daniel

© copyright 2022 Cheryl A. Daniel - Digital Yarbs

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00:00 - The Daguerreotypes
00:35 - The Life Mask
01:06 - Life Mask Reconstruction
01:19 - Open Letter Beginning
01:31 - Profile View of Adams' Reconstructed Life Mask
01:49 - Period Dress Compositions of Adams
02:49 - Credits

▬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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