Keywords: James Monroe White House portrait 1819.gif artwork Creator Samuel Finley Breese Morse Portrait of male otherdate c 1819 Oil on canvas cm 75 2 62 6 Institution White House The White House Historical Association White House copy of the 1819 painting Kloss William et al Art in the White House A Nation's Pride Washington D C The White House Historical Association 2008 President James Monroe looks like a man in early middle age although he was 61 when Morse painted him The genesis of this portrait was a commission for a full-length portrait from the City of Charleston South Carolina In anticipation of Monroe's visit to Charleston the first presidential visit to that city since that of Washington the Common Council on March 1 1819 resolved to 'solicit James Monroe to permit a full-lengtH DICKS accession number place of creation DEFAULTSORT 1819c; James Monroe James Monroe by Samuel Finley Breese Morse Official presidential painted portraits in the White House 05 1819 oil on canvas paintings in the United States 1819 portrait paintings Male 18th-century oil portraits of men at bust length 18th-century portrait paintings in the United States Portrait paintings with neutral background Three-quarter view portrait paintings of men facing right Monroe Doctrine PD-old-100 contrast fix |