This was a happy day for Lincoln. It was in early 1860, just after he had won his party's nomination for President.
Hesler took a total of four portraits at this sitting on June 30, 1860. Lincoln's law partner William Herndon wrote of this picture: "There is the peculiar curve of the lower lip, the lone mole on the right cheek, and a pose of the head so essentially Lincolnian; no other artist has ever caught it."
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17 Rare Photos of Lincoln Before the Beard