Extra Credit Questions

[Anita]

Bravo Roger! It is indeed Cornelia Fassett. Your prize is two pieces of pumpkin pie from Horn & Hardart.

Eva For trying you win one piece of pumpkin pie from Horn & Hardart. Google them and you will read about this famous automat where I enjoyed "comfort Food" many a time.

   
Paintings of Abraham Lincoln were sometimes made “from life”—which means that the artist made them while Lincoln posed. But other paintings were entirely based on portrait photographs. This early painting by Cornelia Fassett may have been based on both, and it shows Lincoln before he grew a beard.
Fassett and her husband, photographer Samuel Montague Fassett, were prominent in the art community of Chicago. According to records of the Grand Army of the Republic, Lincoln posed for Cornelia Fassett in 1860. Her portrait, though, is quite similar to an 1859 photograph taken by her husband. She may have worked from watching Lincoln as he sat for the photograph and from the photograph itself. In 1863 she donated this watercolor portrait to the Northwestern Sanitary Fair held in Chicago’s Bryan Hall. The fair organizers raffled it “for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers.”
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