John Quincy Adams is a portrait painting by George Caleb Bingham.
History.
In the National Portrait Gallery's "America's Presidents" exhibit, the oil painting has been displayed next to a daguerreotype of Adams.
Reception.
In 2016, Holland Cotter of "The New York Times" considered the painting among the best presidential portraits. In 2020, Crispin artwell of "Reason" magazine wrote, "John Quincy Adams, by George Caleb Bingham, sets the chastened tone of the generation after the Founders, a beautifully flat and direct approach that contrasts favorably with the grand gestures that preceded it and with some of those that followed."