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William F. Cogswell: Ulysses S. Grant   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
William F. Cogswell  (1819–1903)  wikidata:Q5610399
 
Alternative names
William Cogswell; William Cogwell; Cogswell
Description American painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1819 Edit this at Wikidata 24 December 1903 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Fabius Edit this at Wikidata Pasadena Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1840s+
Work location
New York, California, Hawaii
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5610399
Title
Ulysses S. Grant
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1868
date QS:P571,+1868-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 73.7 cm (29 in); width: 61 cm (24 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,73.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,61U174728
institution QS:P195,Q35525
Current location
Washington, D.C., United States
Notes

Notes from Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008:
Artist William Cogswell painted this portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant the year before Grant began his first term in office. According to Laura Cooke, the widow of Henry Cooke (the original owner of the portrait), Cogswell worked in a studio improvised at the Cooke family home in Washington, D.C. Grant was an intimate friend and frequent visitor there. Laura Cooke reportedly termed the painting “a most speaking likeness to the General, so considered by himself, and all who saw it.” Henry Cooke’s brother, New York financier Jay Cooke, called the Cogswell portrait “the best picture of Grant in existence.” The Senate acquired the painting in 1886, one year after Grant’s death.

A favorite during the Grant administration, the self-trained Cogswell also painted a large group portrait of the president and his family, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. The artist had a studio in New York City for many years and also traveled extensively; in Hawaii he painted portraits of King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani. Cogswell portrayed other prominent individuals, including President William McKinley, General Philip Sheridan, naturalist Louis Agassiz, California Governor Leland Stanford, and banker Jay Cooke. The official White House portrait of Abraham Lincoln, as selected by President Grant, was painted by Cogswell; it remains in the White House collection.
Source/Photographer The United States Senate
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