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Abraham Lincoln

American / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Abraham Lincoln” of 1869 by George Peter Alexander Healy.  Healy was an American artist from Boston, Massachusetts who studied in Paris and in Rome.  He began to produce portraits when eighteen years old in 1831.  Three years later he left for Europe where he stayed for sixteen years.  In Chicago in 1855, he returned to Europe for a second stay of twenty-one years.  He created more portraits of the famous that any other American artist and returned to Chicago for a last time in 1892.  He died there on June 24 two years later.  This masterpiece measures 141.3 cm wide and 187.3 cm high.  It is in the White House Collection in Washington, D. C.

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