On January 8, 1840, Andrew Jackson arrived in New Orleans to join in a twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of his victory over the British there during the War of 1812. While in New Orleans, he sat for a portrait by Edward Dalton Marchant, which eventually served as the basis for this likeness by James Tooley, Jr., a Mississippi-born miniaturist and landscape painter.

James Tooley, Jr. (1816-1844)
Watercolor on ivory, 1840
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Gift of Mr. William H. Lively,
Mrs. Mary Lively Hoffman,
and Dr. Charles J. Lively
NPG.66.43

Enlarged image

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