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May 18 2011
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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Mar 30 2011
City of Washington, 1833, George Cooke
American / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The City of Washington from Beyond the Naval Yard” of 1833 by George Cooke. The artist was careful to accurately portray both the architecture of the city as well as the natural contours and hills of the area. The representation of the White House is enlarged to provide balance with the Capitol and the bulk of the city lies in the low ground between the two governmental buildings. Cooke was a Southern American landscape and portrait painter who was forty years old when he created this. He died in 1849 after having contracted cholera in New Orleans. This masterpiece is 63.5 cm wide and 45.7101.5 cm high and is in the White House in Washington.
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