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Concerning trade, Rush was a protectionist. He advocated restrictive tariffs that would serve to increase the productivity of American manufacturers. He initiated improvements in the collection and publishing of commercial statistics in order to study the relation of tariff duties to trade. Rush resigned in 1829 at the conclusion of Adams' presidency. About the ArtistCornelia Adele Fassett (1831–1898) was born in Owasco, New York in 1831, moving later to New York City to study watercolor painting with J.B. Wandesforde, an English artist. She then spent three years in Paris and Rome studying under Giuseppe Castiglione, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Gabriel Mathieu. In 1875 she moved to Washington, D.C. where her husband, Samuel Montague Fassett, had accepted the position of photographer to the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Perhaps her most famous painting is The Electoral Commission of 1877 which features more than two hundred portraits of Washington political figures and hangs in the U.S. Capitol. Fassett's portrait of Richard Rush, painted in 1880, is a copy of a Chester Harding painting executed from life sometime around 1825. The document in the painting is a commercial treaty with England negotiated in 1818 by Rush, then Minister to England, and Albert Gallatin, at that time Minister to France. Office of the Curator
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