Abraham Lincoln (Healy)
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Abraham Lincoln is an 1869 oil-on-canvas painting by George Peter Alexander Healy of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.
George P.A. Healy Abraham Lincoln Google Art Project
Abraham Lincoln hanging in the State Dining Room in 2009
William F. Cogswell
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William F. Cogswell was an American portrait painter, and printmaker.
Abraham Lincoln (Healy)
…hoping it would be chosen. However, Ulysses S. Grant, then the president of the United States selected a more formal, high art portrait painted by William F. Cogswell. Robert Todd Lincoln, Lincoln's son, purchased Healy's portrait. He said of Healy's portrait: "I have never seen a portrait of my father which is to…
1868 - Ulysses S. Grant
1869 - Abraham Lincoln