George Peter Alexander Healy, Vinnie Ream
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Brigadier General Richard L. Hoxie · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
George Peter Alexander Healy

Vinnie Ream

ca. 1870

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
79.7 × 56.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-136495

The American sculptor Vinnie Ream (1847-1914) and George Healy met in Rome in the early 1870s when Ream visited Italy to oversee the carving of her full-length statue of Abraham Lincoln for the U.S. Capitol Building. Ream was the first woman, and the youngest artist, ever to receive a congressional commission for the Capitol Rotunda, in part because Lincoln had recently sat for a portrait bust by…

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Brigadier General Richard L. Hoxie

Registry history

  • ca. 1870 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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