Lincoln in the State Dining Room
For over 75 years, George Peter Alexander Healy’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln has remained an important aesthetic element for the Wh...
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet
- Artist
- Francis Bicknell Carpenters
- Date of Work
- 1864
- Medium
- Oil painting
- Credit
- U.S. Senate Collection
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet was painted in oil at the White House in 1864. The artist, Francis Bicknell Carpenters, used the State Dining Room for his studio, studying firsthand every detail of the presidents office and the individuals represented, to make his work accurate to history.
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