Presidential Portraits - White House Historical Association
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, 1861-1865. Portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy in 1869. Oil on canvas, 73 3/4 x 55 5/8 inches. White House Collection/White House Historical Association
List of photographs of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia
There are 130 known photographs of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's features were the despair of every artist who undertook his portrait. The writer saw nearly a dozen, one after another, soon after the first nomination to the presidency, attempt the task.
Portraits of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia
Presidents will often display the official portraits of former presidents whom they admire in the Oval Office or elsewhere around the White House, loaned from the National Portrait Gallery.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) - National Portrait Gallery
About the Portrait. Lincoln was the first president to take full advantage of photography, both as a campaign tool and as a way to craft a desirable public persona. These images, appearing on campaign buttons and in newspapers, transformed Lincoln from a gawky backwoods farmer into a statesman. Lincoln often spoke of his rural origins.
Life-Size 1865 Portrait of Abraham Lincoln ... - Smithsonian Magazine
Feb 17, 2023 · One longtime Lincoln associate said Willem Frederik Karel Travers’ 1865 work was the most realistic portrait he had ever seen of the 16th president, who had been killed just 11 years...
Abraham Lincoln - White House Historical Association
This portrait of Abraham Lincoln was created by George Peter Alexander Healy (sometimes known as G. P. A. Healy) in 1869, not long after Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865.
Abraham Lincoln in Prints & Photographs - Library of Congress
Sep 11, 2020 · This gallery of twenty-two images shows Abraham Lincoln over the course of twenty years—from the earliest known photographic likeness in 1846, through the U.S. presidential campaign of 1860. The gallery also includes views from Lincoln's funeral in 1865 and portraits of his immediate family.
Abraham Lincoln - America's Presidents: National Portrait Gallery
Abraham Lincoln, a self-educated frontier lawyer from Illinois, faced one of the greatest challenges as president: preserving the Union. He initially framed the Civil War as a Constitutional crisis over secession, but as fighting intensified, his aims evolved to include reunification based on the abolition of slavery.
Abraham Lincoln - America's Presidents: National Portrait Gallery
Alexander Gardner took this portrait of Abraham Lincoln at the last sitting the president gave him, on Sunday, February 5, 1865. That same sitting produced the accidental masterpiece known as the “cracked-plate” portrait.
Abraham Lincoln - America's Presidents: National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian NPG exhibition: the nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House.