Here's another angle from the same sitting. Lincoln would say of it: "That looks better and expresses me better than any I have ever seen; if it pleases the people I am satisfied.
August 13, 1860 - The last beardless photograph of Lincoln. John M. Read commissioned Philadelphia artist John Henry Brown to paint a good-looking miniature of Lincoln "whether or not the subject justified it". This ambrotype is one of six taken on Monday, August 13, 1860 in Butler's daguerreotype studio (of which only two survive), made for the portrait painter. A few months later, the first photos would emerge of Lincoln with a fledgling, scraggly beard!
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