1From John Adams to John Trumbull, 18 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
...past through Antwerp, without gazing at all the Paintings of Reubens, I cannot depend upon my...
2John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 August 1782 (Adams Papers)
.... Discriptions of Cities, Churches, Palaces, Paintings, Spectacles, all the Objects around you...
3From John Adams to John Trumbull, 1 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
Architecture Sculpture Painting and Poetry have conspir’d against the Rights of Mankind...
4From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
...often as the Arts of Architecture, painting Sculpture Music, Poetry, Agriculture, Horticulture...
5John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 6 June 1784 (Adams Papers)
...for this portrait, the only known life-sized painting of him; but despite his payment and...
6John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 December 1781 (Adams Papers)
...What Churches? What Palaces? What Statuary, what Paintings, Musick, Spectacles, &c. You have...
7From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
...! you have written upon Art, upon Musick, Painting and Poetry! and what has the House...
8From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
Can you prescribe rules for painting, a perception? A reminiscens,? a judgment? a......painting a...
9From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 5 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
...Ships, the art of Algebra; or in deed in Painting, Poetry, or Music. these are all the results...
10From John Adams to Caleb Stark, Jr., 7 November 1823 (Adams Papers)
.... He has selected & purchased many beautiful paintings by the first masters & they make...