John Harrison littlefield (1835-1902) also known as J. H. littlefield was a painter. He is best known for having painted an image of Abraham Lincoln which was engraved and featured on the United States five-dollar bill.
Biography
editLittlefield was born in 1825 and his family were from Cicero, Illinois and they were friends with the future US president Abraham Lincoln.[1][2] In 1887 Littlefield told the Brooklyn Eagle that he was a student in Abraham Lincoln's offce for two years.[3]
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In 1869 Henry Gugler completed an engraving of Abraham Lincoln which was based on an 1865 painting by Littlefield. The Lincoln engraving took Gugler three years to complete.[4] The engraved image was used on the United States five-dollar bill beginning with the Series of 1928; the bill featured the portrait of Lincoln.[1] He was also responsible for painting the image of former US president Ulysses S. Grant.[5]
Gallery
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Death-Bed of Lincoln, Albumen Photograph of John Littlefield Painting -
Engraving of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Gugler, based on Littlefield's painting
References
edit- ^ a b "Brown University Portrait Collection". library.brown.edu. Brown University.
- ^ "Littlefield, John H. in Art & Artists Files in the Smithsonian Libraries' Collections". www.sil.si.edu. Smithsonian. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "J.H. Littlefield; Memories of Lincoln". Brooklyn Eagle. 16 October 1887. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Sullivan, George (2000). Picturing Lincoln: Famous Photographs that Popularized the President. New York, New Yok: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-395-91682-7. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art. New York: Leavitt, Trow, & Company. 1868. p. 1292. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
