The National Portrait Gallery in Washington ... During her time in the White House, from 1809 to 1817, Madison hosted Washington's political elite at social functions, creating a lane for ...

The presidential portraits in the White House date back to Gilbert Stuart ... famously saved the painting when she and President James Madison fled the president’s mansion as the British ...

(President James Madison’s Attorney General ... to recover from its sacking. Stuart’s portrait of Washington was returned. An enslaved White House worker named Nace Rhodes brought back ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait ... husband, James Madison, had served as president from 1809 to 1817, during which time the Wednesday evening receptions she held at the White House were ...

But could James Madison twerk like that ... one of a handful of things that former First Lady Dolley Madison took from the White House after British troops set fire to D.C. in 1814.