Today, complete collections of presidential ... by first lady Dolley Madison during the War of 1812 when the British set fire to the Executive Mansion. The official portrait of George Washington ...

James Madison - known as the father of the US constitution - served as president from 1809 to 1817. The photograph of his wife joins the National Portrait Gallery’s collection of around 230 ...

The third president knew that the whims ... tenures Sara Georgini The National Portrait Gallery purchased an 1846 daguerreotype of Dolley Madison for $456,000 Meilan Solly Before Theodore ...

James Madison served as President of the United States from 1809 ... Dolley, famously saved a portrait of George Washington.