A surprising influence on Obama’s portrait: Abraham Lincoln

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I didn't realize that the first Lincoln portrait commissioned for the White House was done by artist William F. Cogswell and was preferred by President Grant. It was Robert Lincoln who purchased the Healy portrait, and it remained in the family until Lincoln's granddaughter, Mamie, presented it to the White House during the FDR administration. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/lincol...ining-room

I'm not good at cutting and pasting photos either, but personally, I like Cogswell's painting. I don't remember reading where it is now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F....,_1869.jpg