The National Portrait Gallery unveiled a rare portrait of President Abraham Lincoln on Friday, ahead of Lincoln’s 214th birthday. The nine-foot-tall portrait, painted by W.F.K. Travers in 1865 ...

The National Portrait Gallery will unveil a nine-foot-tall portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers on February 10. It’s a remarkable work with an even more remarkable backstory: ...

A framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln dates back to 1865. It was the same year the Civil War ended, followed by the assassination of President Lincoln. Three months ago, the rare photograph turned ...

Learn about Abraham Lincoln (sixteenth president, 1861–1865) through museum art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of ...

Based upon the famous photograph of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew ... well-respected artists have painted Lincoln, few works were created during his lifetime, and even fewer by the hand of a black artist.

In fact many of Mr. LINCOLN's friends, both in Washington and elsewhere, to whom this likeness has been submitted, pronounce it the most satisfactory portrait of our late President that has been ...

MR. LINCOLN SITS FOR HIS PORTRAIT: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon, by Leonard S. Marcus Abraham Lincoln loved kittens and smelled of wood smoke; he recited Shakespeare and ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October ... most important speech of his life to date, Lincoln also went to Mathew Brady’s studio for a portrait. The resulting photograph—by Brady ...

REV. AND DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 17th is received. You request me to inform you what I know personally of Mr. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, first, as to his intellectual capacity; second, his consistency ...