arrested the movement which resulted in the independence of America and the overthrow of the royal prerogative in England. [Illustration: JOHN ADAMS. (_Amsterdam print._) The Amsterdam edition, 1782, of _Geschiedenis van het Geschil tusschen Groot-Britannie en Amerika ... door zijne Excellentie, den Heere John Adams_. There is a likeness of John Adams as a young man engraved in his _Life and Works_, vol. ii. He says of himself at the time of the famous scene when Otis was making his plea against the Writs of Assistance, and he was taking notes of it, that the artist depicting it would have to represent the young reporter as "looking like a short, thick Archbishop of Canterbury" (_Works_, x. 245). There was a print published in London in 1783 showing a head in a circle, which is reproduced in the _Mag. of Amer. Hist._, xi. 93. Copley painted him once, in 1783, in court dress, and the painting now hangs in Memorial Hall, Cambridge. The head of this full-length picture was engraved for Stockdale's edition of Adams's _Defence of the Constitutions_, published in 1794; and the painting was never engraved to show the entire figure till it appeared in vol. v. of the _Works_ (A. T. Perkins's _Copley_, p. 27). Cf. the head in Bartlett Woodward's _United States_. Stuart first painted him in 1812, and this picture belongs to his descendants, and is engraved in the _Works_, vol. i. There are copies of this picture by Gilbert Stuart Newton and B. Otis, both of which have been engraved. The Newton copy is in the Mass. Hist. Society (_Catal. of Cabinet_, no. 47; _Proc._, 1862, p. 3). The Otis copy has been engraved by J. B. Longacre (Sanderson's _Signers_, vol. viii.). Stuart again painted Adams in 1825, the year before he died, representing him as sitting at one end of a sofa. It is engraved on steel in the _Works_, vol. x., and on wood in the _Mem. Hist. Boston_, iii. 192. (Cf. Mason's _Stuart_, p. 125.) Another Stuart is owned by Mr. T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston. A portrait by Col. John Trumbull also hangs in Memorial Hall, Cambridge; and Adams's likeness is also in Independence Hall. (Cf. Irving's _Washington_, quarto ed., vol. v.) A cabinet full-length by Winstanley, painted while Adams was at the Hague (1782), is in the Boston Museum (Johnston's _Orig. Portraits of Washington_, p. 93). Among the contemporary popular engravings, mention may be made of that by Norman in the _Boston Magazine_, Feb., 1784; one in the _European Magazine_ (vol. iv. 83). Stuart also painted a portrait of the wife of John Adams, which is engraved in the _Works_, vol. ix. A picture of her by Blythe, at the age of twenty-one, accompanies the _Familiar Letters_. Views of the Adams homestead in Quincy, Mass., are given in the _Works_ (vol. i. p. 598); in _Appleton's Journal_ (xii. 385); in Mrs. Lamb's _Homes of America_. An india-ink sketch, showing a distant view of Boston beyond the house, is in the halls of the Bostonian Society.—ED.]