1) George Peter Alexander Healy, born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 15, 1813 to June 24, 1894 (aged 80), was an American portrait painter.
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2) At sixteen years of age he began drawing, and at developed an ambition to be an artist. Jane Stuart aided him, loaning him a Guido’s “Ecce Homo”, which he copied in color and sold to a country priest.
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3) At eighteen, he began painting portraits, & was soon very successful. He went abroad for sixteen years & studied with Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris & in Rome & came under the influence of Thomas Couture.
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4) He received a third-class medal in the Paris Salon of 1840. In 1843 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician. He won a second-class medal in Paris in 1855.
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5) Among his portraits of eminent persons are those of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Pope Pius IX, Arnold Henry Guyot, William H. Seward, Louis Philippe, Hawthorne, Longfellow, & many others.
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6) The Newberry Library in Chicago holds 41 of his paintings, donated by himself in 1887. It also holds some letters by him & info about his work. His portrait of Lincoln was the model used for stamps.
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