Watercolor and graphite pencil on ivory; 11.4 x 8.9 cm (4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.) Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Gilbert Stuart Newton, nephew of American artist Gilbert Stuart, was a British artist active in the U.S. from 1803—17. This portrait is based on his uncle’s 1813 portrait of Paul Revere.
The most inadvertently prophetic words that Adams ever uttered were his last: Thomas Jefferson survives.
For it was the Jeffersonian image that broke free of the aggregated anonymity, the founders
or the fathers,
and eventually ascended into heaven with Washington. During the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Jeffersonian legacy became the most adaptable and all-purpose political touchstone in American political history.