LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. CARPENTER, FRANCIS B., artist. Portrait of President Lincoln, painted in Washington, D.C., 1864, engraved by F. Halpin, plate with legend "from life by F. B. Carpenter," imprint at bottom: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1866 by F.B. Carpenter...". Large folio, sight 22 x 16 in. including margins, matted and enclosed in a gilt-lined wood frame. Unexamined out of frame. A fine, sensitively rendered bust-length portrait executed from photographs taken by Anthony Berger of Brady's Gallery for the artist's use (see Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, pp.186-193). Carpenter (1830-1900) lived in the White House from February to July 1864, at work on his historical scene "The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln." As one historian notes, "the result of this remarkable residence was not only a famous painting but also an important book, Six Months at the White House With Abraham Lincoln...a valuable source for Lincoln's activities in the decisive year of his reelection..." (Mark Neely). Oversize prints of this Carpenter portrait are rare.