Life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln on display at National Portrait Gallery
Historic Abraham Lincoln painting on display at National Portrait Gallery
Are you looking for something to do on President’s Day Monday, well you can visit D.C. to see a rare and historic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The life-size display at the National Portrait Gallery was debuted last week in time for Lincoln’s 214th birthday. Mindy Farmer, a historian for the National Portrait Gallery, joins FOX 5 Morning Sunday to tell us about the display.
WASHINGTON - The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has installed a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln.
The 1865 work by artist W.F.K. Travers is a nine-foot-tall oil on canvas painting. It is one of three known, life-size paintings of the 16th president, and is on long-term loan from the Hartley Dodge Foundation.
Abraham Lincoln (National Portrait Gallery)
"It is a pleasure to reunite the Travers painting with Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne portrait of George Washington - a highlight of the Portrait Gallery's permanent collection - roughly 147 years after the two paintings were first displayed together at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia," said Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery in a statement.
The nearby Lincoln Memorial will soon receive a major upgrade that will include a new museum beneath the monument and other improvements that will be part of a nearly $69 million project.