Beginning Feb. 7, a new tactile display will offer a more inclusive experience of the Portrait Gallery’s casts of Lincoln’s face and hands. Designed for blind visitors and those with low vision, the ...

Mathew Brady, known as the father of photojournalism for his documentation of the Civil War, also won acclaim for nuanced ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has installed a rare, life-sized portrait of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. According to a release from the ...

Credit: “Abraham Lincoln,” Willem Frederik Karel Travers, oil on canvas, 1865. On loan from the Hartley Dodge Foundation, and courtesy of the citizens of the Borough of Madison, New Jersey.

The portrait is joined by a tactile display that offers a more inclusive experience of the Portrait Gallery’s casts of Lincoln’s face and hands. Designed for blind visitors and those with low vision, ...

MADISON — A celebrated 19th-century painting of Abraham Lincoln that hung for 80 years on the wall of the borough's council chambers is on its way to Washington D.C. and a long-awaited national ...

Credit: “Abraham Lincoln,” Willem Frederik Karel Travers, oil on canvas, 1865. On loan from the Hartley Dodge Foundation, and courtesy of the citizens of the Borough of Madison, New Jersey.

The W.F.K. Travers portrait of Abraham Lincoln joins the other paintings in the ongoing “America’s Presidents” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and will be ...

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln Friday morning. The 1865 portrait was painted by Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers and is one of ...

A framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln dates back to 1865. It was the same year the Civil War ended, followed by the assassination of President Lincoln.

The National Portrait Gallery will unveil a nine-foot-tall portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers on February 10. It’s a remarkable work with an even more remarkable backstory: ...

Now, with the arrival of Leonard S. Marcus’s meticulously researched “Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait,” we can add yet another facet to our 16th president’s complicated character: media ...