Portrait of Abraham Lincoln
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The "First Portrait" of Abraham Lincoln hangs in Memorial Hall. The portrait was done by Charles Alfred Barry in June, 1860 when Lincoln was newly nominated Republican candidate for President. The portrait had been bequested to the library by George Henry Torr of Andover in 1915. In 1947, director Miriam Putnam recognized that the drawing hanging in the library was the lost first portrait of Lincoln to be drawn from life.
See
- Andover File--Memorial Hall Library--Artworks--Lincoln Portrait
- Andover Townsman, March 6, 1947
- Christian Science Monitor, December 12, 1947
--Glenda 14:19, November 22, 2006 (EST)
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