Abraham Lincoln – George Peter Alexander Healy, 1869
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description: Abraham Lincoln by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1869Framed Canvas ArtHealy's Abraham Lincoln presents the sixteenth president in a posture of restrained authority: seated in a carved gilded chair with red upholstered panels, his right hand raised to his chin in a gesture of quiet deliberation. The palette is built on a deep, close-valued range of near-black suiting, warm ivory shirtfront, and the rich burgundy of the seat fabric, all resolved against a background of soft umber and olive shadow that neither competes with nor flattens the figure. Light falls from the upper left, catching the bridge of Lincoln's nose, the back of his right hand, and the gold leaf of the chair's carved crest rail, while the rest of the composition recedes into warm darkness. The face is modeled with academic precision: Healy renders the deep-set eyes and strongly planed cheekbones without flattery, and the slight furrow between Lincoln's brows suggests the weight of sustained thought rather than ceremonial calm. The brushwork is controlled and tight in the face, loosening only slightly in the coat and the drapery of the curtain behind. Within Healy's extensive output of presidential portraiture, this canvas stands apart for its psychological intimacy: Lincoln does not address the viewer, he is absorbed in a problem the viewer has interrupted.Healy painted Lincoln from life on multiple occasions during the Civil War years, but this particular portrait was completed in 1869, four years after Lincoln's assassination, when Healy was living and working in Rome and later Chicago. It belongs to a period when Healy was synthesizing his French academic realism training under Baron Gros's circle with the direct observational practice he had developed across decades of painting American statesmen, European royalty, and Pope Pius IX. The composition was commissioned for the White House collection, where it entered as part of the sustained effort after the Civil War to memorialize Lincoln through o…
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  value: Small (23 x 19), Medium (31 x 25), Large (39 x 31), Estate (51 x 40)
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  value: Gold, Silver, Dark Bronze
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