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Portrait of Dolley Madison by J.F.E. (John Frances Eugene) Prud'homme (1800-1892). Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.

Prud'homme was a popular engraver of portraits and illustrations for books and periodicals.

DPM

Engraving of Dolley Madison by Charles Goodman (1796-1835) and Robert Piggot (1795-1887) from an oil painting by Bass Otis (1784-1861). Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

Otis executed the original painting in 1816, probably at Montpelier, when Mrs. Madison was forty-eight years old. The engraving was done at some time between 1817 and 1822 during which years Goodman and Piggot owned and ran an engraving firm which did work mainly for periodicals and annuals.

James Madison

Engraving of James Madison by Thomas B. Welch (1814-1874) from a drawing by James B. Longacre (1794-1869). Prints and Photographs Divison, Library of Congress.

Longacre went to Montpelier in July, 1833, to paint this portrait for Longacre's and James Herring's National Portrait Gallery. Madison was reluctant to sit for the portrait, but urged by Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Trist, Madison finally agreed. It is the last life portrait of James Madison known to have survived. Thomas B. Welch was a student of Longacre's who became an engraver and portrait painter in Philadelphia.

James Madison

Engraving of James Madison from the original series painted by Gilbert Stuart (1751-1836) for the Messrs. Doggett of Boston. Prints and Photographs Divison, Library of Congress.

John Payne Todd

Portrait of John Payne Todd by Kurtz, possibly Henry Kurtz, engraver and landscape painter, born c. 1822. From The Life and Letters of Dolly Madison by Allen C. Clark (1914).

John Payne Todd (1792-1852) was Mrs. Madison's only surviving son. This portrait is from a lost miniature illustrated in Clark's book and is the only surviving likeness of him.

Harriet Martineau

Portrait of Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was an English writer best known for her Illustrations of Political Economy and Illustrations of Taxation. She traveled to the United States in the mid 1830s during which time she visited the Madisons at Montpelier.