# Portraits of Andrew Jackson

This is a list of portraits of Andrew Jackson, who was the seventh president of the United States.
Color key: Pre- and post-presidential portraits Presidential-era portraits

## Paintings

| Date | Age | Artist | Institution | Technique | Notes |
| 1815 | 48 | Nathan Wheeler | ? | Oil on canvas | There are no known images of Andrew Jackson before 1815, this was painted from life in 1815 after the battle of New Orleans |
| 1817 | 50 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | National Portrait Gallery | | |
| 1817 | 50 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | | | |
| 1819 | 52 | Samuel Lovett Waldo | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Oil on canvas | |
| 1819 | 52 | Samuel Lovett Waldo | Historic New Orleans Collection | Oil on canvas | |
| 1819 | 52 | | Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Andover Academy | Oil on canvas | According to biographer Robert V. Remini, Waldo produced one of the "better likenesses" of Jackson |
| 1819 | 52 | Charles Willson Peale | The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania of The Grand Lodge F. & A. M. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | Oil on canvas | |
| 1819 | 52 | Rembrandt Peale | Maryland Historical Society | Oil on canvas | Commissioned by the city of Baltimore |
| 1819 | 52 | Anna Claypoole Peale | Yale University Art Gallery | Watercolor on ivory | Painted in Washington, D.C. while Jackson was there defending himself in Congress against charges of misconduct in the First Seminole War |
| 1819 | 52 | John Wesley Jarvis | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Oil on canvas | Commissioned by the city of New York; Remini considered this a "romantic portrait" |
| c. 1822 | 55 | Possibly Matthew Harris Jouett | | Oil on wood panel | |
| 1824 | 57 | Thomas Sully | | | Painted from life, "the original 1824 study was privately owned by Mrs. Breckenridge Long in 1940, but its current location is unknown." |
| 1828 | 57 | Asher B. Durand | New York City Hall | Oil | "After John Vanderlyn," collection of New-York Historical Society, New York |
| 1828 | 61 | Joseph Wood | | | Original image lost (?) |
| 1830 | 63 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | DAR Museum | Oil on canvas | "The Jockey Club Portrait" Jackson is sitting in a chair ordered by James Monroe from Pierre-Antoine Bellange, in the distance is the U.S. Capitol with the "Bullfinch dome," which is distinct from the present dome. |
| 1830 | 63 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | Private collection | | "Farmer Jackson" portrait |
| 1828–1833 | 61–66 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Nashville | | "Tennessee gentleman" portrait |
| 1832 | 65 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | North Carolina Museum of Art | | |
| 1833 | 66 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis | | |
| 1833 | 66 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Nashville | | Andrew Jackson Astride Sam Patch |
| 1832–35 | 65–68 | William James Hubard | | | |
| 1835 | 68 | Samuel M. Charles | | "Miniature" | Per biographer Robert V. Remini, he was "refusing to wear his dentures" when he sat for this portrait |
| 1835 | 68 | David Rent Etter [d] | Second Bank Portrait Gallery, Independence National Park, Philadelphia | | Depicts Jackson, seated at the White House, pointing a copy of the Proclamation to the People of South Carolina |
| 1835 | 68 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | | | |
| 1835 | 68 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Nashville | | |
| 1836 | 69 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina | | |
| 1836–37 | 69–70 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | Smithsonian Museum of American Art | | "The National Picture," possession transferred to museum from U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia |
| 1837 | 70 | Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl | | | |
| 1840 | 73 | Miner Kilbourne Kellogg | | | |
| January 1840 | 73 | Jacques Amans | | | |
| 1840 | 73 | Edward Dalton Marchant | Union League of Philadelphia (?) | | |
| 1840 | 73 | James Tooley Jr. | | | "After Marchant" |
| 1840 | 73 | Trevor Thomas Fowler [d] | | National Portrait Gallery | |
| 1847? 1865? | ? | George Peter Alexander Healy | | National Portrait Gallery | Painted from life when Jackson was near death, painted a portrait of Sarah Yorke Jackson during the same sittings |

## Photographs

| Date | Age | Artist | Technique | Notes |
| 1840? | | | | J. E. Moore of New Orleans was "reported in March of 1842 as practicing the daguerrean art at the rooms of Madame Berniaud at the corner of Baronne and Canal streets. Specimens of the daguerreotype on view at his rooms included a likeness of General Andrew Jackson." |
| 1844–45 | 77–78 | Possibly by Edward Anthony, copy made by Mathew Brady | Half-plate gold-tone daguerreotype | |
| 1844–45 | 77–78 | Possibly by Edward Anthony, copy made by Mathew Brady | Half-plate gold-tone daguerreotype | |
| April 15, 1845 | 78 | Dan Adams, enlarged by Charles Truscott | Daguerreotype | This version hand-tinted; per Remini this image captures Jackson "bloated, grumpy, formally attired, and propped up against a pillow"; possibly apocryphal story about Jackson's comment on the image: "Humph! Looks like a monkey!" |

## Posthumous

| Date | Artist | Institution | Technique | Notes |
| 1845 | Thomas Sully | National Gallery of Art | | |
| 1845 | Thomas Sully | Corcoran Gallery of Art | | |
| 1857 | Thomas Sully | United States Senate Collection | Oil on canvas mounted on board | Based on a study from life done in 1824 |

## Notable engravings and lithographs

| Date | Artist | Notes |
| ? | James Barton Longacre | "After Sully" |
| ? | James Barton Longacre | "After J. Wood" |
| ? | James Barton Longacre | "After Earl, 1826" |
| September 28, 1829 | James Barton Longacre | "Drawn from life" |
| 1845 | Currier & Ives | Lithograph, posthumous |
| | U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing | |

## Miscellaneous

| Image | Date | Artist | Notes |
| | 1828 | William James Hubard | Cut-paper silhouette |