JOHN ADAMS, by William Winstanley, 1798, British-American painting, oil on canvas. The portrait was painted when Adams was the second President of the United States from 1797-1801. It was not painted from life, but copied from one or more other works. Winstanley was a British painter who worked in the US the 1790s to the early 1800s. His landscapes were collected by George Washington (BSLOC_2019_5_59)