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George Henry Story

George Henry Story (1835 - 1923) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut.  George Story is known for Portrait, genre-interior, and landscape painting.

George Henry Story was a painter of portraits, landscape and genre and curator and acting director of two major American museums, and an early portraitist of President Abraham Lincoln.

While in Washington for a period of time, Story had met the President, drawing him in pencil.  At a later date, Story again sketched Lincoln for three days in the Oval office, preparing to paint a commissioned portrait of the President.  He actually painted several portraits of Lincoln.  Story wrote about this experience: "After each sitting, I returned to my room and worked upon my picture with my sitter vividly in mind, almost as though he were in my actual presence."

Story was involved even further with Lincoln.  He was responsible for establishing the Presidential pose for Lincoln's first official photograph in office.

Story held the posts of curator concurrently at both the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Wadsworth Atheneum i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2139 characters.]  Artist bio

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