The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., acquired the circa 1846 daguerreotype, which depicts Dolley Madison in her later years, at some point in her 70s.

The quarter-plate daguerreotype of President James Madison’s wife at age 78, is likely from the winter of 1846, and is believed to be the earliest existing photographic portrait of the “first ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has snagged the first known portrait of an American First Lady, buying the daguerreotype of Dolley Madison in its original leather case at Sotheby’s ...

James Madison, 16 Mar 1751 - 28 Jun 1836 Provenance Frederick Edwin Church [1826-1900], New York; Gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1877; Gift to NPG, 2019. Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, ...

James Madison Porter (1793-1862) was born in Montgomery County, but his real career and reputation were made in Northampton ...