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 ...

Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln have been auctioned off, separated from a collection that was ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860 ... looking at a print version of the Cooper Union portrait when she wrote to Lincoln. Looking at it now, you can see her point.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Abraham Lincoln” (1865) by W.F.K. Travers in the "America's Presidents" gallery at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, on loan from the Hartley Dodge Foundation. Courtesy of National ...

life-size paintings of the 16th president Gabrielle Obusek The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the installation of a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln by ...