Eunice Makepeace Towle

Eunice Makepeace Towle (May 4, 1806 – October 19, 1894) was an American portrait painter.

Her subjects included US Presidents John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, and Martin Van Buren.

[1] Their children included George Makepeace Towle, lawyer, author, and translator of Jules Verne.

[2] Dr. Towle encouraged John Quincy Adams to sit for a portrait by her.

[3] Eunice Makepeace Towle died on October 19, 1894, in Andover, Massachusetts.

Eunice Makepeace Towle's portrait of President Martin Van Buren, in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery