Paintings

Abraham Lincoln

Type: Paintings(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1888
Accession number: 19.18
Maker: H. Colcard(Opens in new tab) (American, 1888–1888)
Dimensions: canvas: 26 × 21 in. (66 × 53.3 cm.) frame: 35 × 29 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (88.9 × 74.9 × 8.9 cm.)
Medium: oil on canvas
Description: Painted in oil from life by the western artist H. Colcard. Face to right with beard, grayish blue eyes, black tie. SIze 21 inches by 26 inches in a very handsome Rococco frame. About 1863-4. An extremely fine portrait. Only a few were painted in Lincoln's lifetime, and these are all in public institutions. This portrait was formerly in the Libby Prison War Museum where it was seen and much admired by numbers of Lincoln's personal friends and contemporaries. [note in file]
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: American Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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