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 ...

Mathew Brady, known as the father of photojournalism for his documentation of the Civil War, also won acclaim for nuanced portraits of famous figures.

Portraits of Abraham Lincoln. 1 minute read. By TIME. February 3, 2009 12:00 AM EST. ... Alexander Hesler took this portrait of Lincoln while he was campaigning for President.

Outlook A rare painting of Lincoln restores the emancipator to his full height. The 16th president is well known from black and white photos, but this re-discovered portrait adds dimension and meaning ...

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 ...

Lincoln, Abraham original artist Marchant, Edward Dalton graphic artist Sartain, John Description Late in 1862, the Union League of Philadelphia commissioned Edward Dalton Marchant to paint Lincoln's ...

The National Portrait Gallery will unveil a nine-foot-tall portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers on February 10. It’s a remarkable work with an even more remarkable backstory: ...

The intellectual and physical traits of Abraham Lincoln were such as the world had never seen before. Original, peculiar, and anomalous, they seemed incapable of analysis and classification.

In a preview, David Ward described the National Portrait Gallery's collection of Abraham Lincoln portraits. He talked about the vogue of taking plaster casts and creating replicas of a person's face.

Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and works inspired by the civil rights movement by Dan Christoffel exhibited at South Huntington Public Library's Alfred Van Loen Gallery.

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; ...