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Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845 (Silver Jubilee portrait):
Andrew Jackson won national acclaim for his successful military campaigns against the Creek Indians in the Mississippi Territory in 1814 and against the Seminole nation in Florida in 1818. Yet Jackson's spectacular victory over the British in New Orleans on January 8, 1815, was the event for which he would be most feted in his lifetime. In 1840, the city hosted a Silver Jubilee for Jackson and his victory. This portrait of the aging hero, white-haired and in poor health, depicts him at that time.
James Tooley, Jr., watercolor on ivory, 1840 |