Freeman Thorpe - Biography (original) (raw)

Freeman Thorpe (1844 - 1922) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, Minnesota, Ohio. Freeman Thorpe is known for Portrait painter-dignitaries.

A portrait painter, Freeman Thorpe was especially noted for his portraits of political figures, most of them completed by him in Washington DC. His subjects included Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, William McKinley, and James Garfield; Generals William T. Sherman, Robert E. Lee and Philip Sheridan, and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. However, he also was in New York City where newspaperman and polititian Horace Greeley was a subject.

Thorpe first met Abraham Lincoln in 1860 in Geneva, Ohio, where he sketched his portrait just after Lincoln's election as U.S. President. Later he again sketched him from life while he was giving the Gettysburg address and Thorpe was an office in the Second Calvalry Regiment.

Thorpe was also active as a portrait painter in Texas, where he visited Austin, Galveston, Houston and San Antonio.

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Deborah and John Powers, Texas Painters, Scuptors & Graphic Artists, ... [Displaying 1000 of 1697 characters.] Artist bio

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