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Abraham Lincoln
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This popular portrait, painted twenty-two years
after Lincoln’s death, was based upon another
likeness of Lincoln done by George P. A. Healy for
a group portrait in 1869 called the Peace Makers.
In it, Lincoln confers with Generals Grant and Sherman
and Admiral D. Porter on board the River Queen
at City Point, Virginia, near the end of the war.
Healy is believed to have done his original life
sketches of Lincoln at the White House in 1864. |
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George P. A. Healy (1813–1894)
Oil on canvas, 1887
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift
of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable
Trust, 1942
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