| Jessie Atwood is perhaps best known for his rendering of Abraham Lincoln, executed in Springfield, IL in 1860 (see Illinois State Journal,
26 October 1860 and 1 November 1860). Although the last known portrait
of a clean-shaven Lincoln is the excellent rendering by G. P. A.
Healy, the traveling-portraitist, Atwood – upon learning that Lincoln
had grown a beard following the November election of 1860 – would
quickly add whiskers onto his portrait of the new President. (The (showing 500 of 1122 characters). |
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