A surprising influence on Obama’s portrait: Abraham Lincoln

[David Lockmiller]

(02-14-2018 10:44 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  The pose of Lincoln inspired Healy's 1869 portrait, Abraham Lincoln. Robert Todd Lincoln considered the likeness of his father in this painting to be the "most excellent in existence."

The original version of the painting was destroyed by the Calumet club fire in 1893. A second copy was discovered in 1922, after lying unnoticed in a family storeroom in Chicago for fifty years. The acquisition of the painting was made by the Truman White House in 1947.

(Source: Wikipedia)

President Trump sat directly underneath this painting of Abraham Lincoln as he talked and listened today to surviving students and parents of victims from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and other school massacres, including Sandy Hook Elementary School (December 14, 2012) in Newtown, Connecticut.