When a full-sized portrait of Abraham Lincoln by an obscure Dutch artist ... the president in a February 1865 photograph by Alexander Gardner, as well as a new tactile display, designed for ...

President Abraham Lincoln sits for a portrait on Feb. 5, 1865. (Alexander Gardner/U.S. Library of Congress via Getty Images) New biographies of Abraham Lincoln inevitably invite the question ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

President Biden’s Oval Office boasts both a portrait and a bust of Abraham Lincoln. But his family’s connection to the 16th president extends far beyond workplace ornamentation. It dates to a ...

It is ironic, therefore, that the nearly iconic portrait of Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Calhoun’s body and Lincoln's head. It is said that this was done because there was no sufficiently ...

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 ...

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 ...