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Vinnie Ream
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About this work
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 her when she was only sixteen years old.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineVinnie Ream. ca. 1870. George Peter Alexander Healy, born Boston, MA 1813-died Chicago, IL 1894. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Brigadier General Richard L. Hoxie. CC0.
