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General Ulysses Simpson Grant
James Lambdin1867
The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, United States
Three-quarter length portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), Union General during the American Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. General Grant is standing, dressed in uniform, and looking directly at the viewer. The portrait’s spontaneous, lifelike quality, coupled by its impressive size, suggest that it was artist James Reid Lambdin’s first painting of General Grant, and the one on which he based his other somewhat mechanical versions.
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Details
- Title: General Ulysses Simpson Grant
- Creator: James Reid Lambdin
- Date Created: 1867
- Physical Dimensions: Height- 45 inches, Width- 37.125 inches
- Provenance: Inscribed and dated on verso: ”Original Portrait of Gen’l U.S. Grant painted at Head Quarters Washington Jany 1867.” This painting was among 17 paintings of distinguished Americans, which Lambdin placed on loan to The Union League of Philadelphia, a patriotic society founded in 1862 to support Abraham Lincoln and the Union during the American Civil War, in 1867. The Union League purchased the entire group in 1870. This painting was sold in 1978 by Samuel T. Freeman and Co. auction house to the Barra Foundation. The Barra Foundation loaned the painting to the Union League in 1998, gifting it three years later and funding a new, more appropriate style frame. Gift of the Barra Foundation, 2001.
- Type: Oil painting
- Rights: The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of the Union League of Philadelphia. For questions regarding usage please contact archives@unionleague.org.
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Internal ID: 2001.234.1
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