Abraham Lincoln, c. 1864 or after

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.2 x 63.6 cm (30 x 25 1/16 in.)

framed: 101.9 x 90.2 x 8.9 cm (40 1/8 x 35 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.67

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

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Provenance

Hiram Burlingham, New York; (his estate sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, 11 January 1934, no. 61);[1] purchased by Andrew W. Mellon [1855-1937], Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; his estate; deeded 8 March 1938 to the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.

[1] The Lincoln portrait was listed as no. 61 in the sale catalogue where Effingham Schieffelin and Samuel P. Avery, Jr., both of New York, respectively, were listed as its previous owners. It was illustrated in a sale notice in The Art News 32 (6 January 1934), 10.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Burlingham, Hiram
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Mellon, Andrew W.

Exhibition History

1926: Gallery of National Portraiture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1926, no. 215.

1953: Extended loan for use by the White House, Washington, D.C., 1953-1961.

1972: Extended loan for use by Justice William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1972-1984.

1984: Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mission residence, Geneva, Switzerland, 1984-1989.

1989: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Morris B. Abram, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mission residence, Geneva, Switzerland, 1989-1993.

2001: Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 2001-2013.

2017: Extended loan for use by Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 2017-2018.

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 138, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 280, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 409, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 310-311, repro.