188 x 161.9 x 15.2cm (74 x 63 3/4 x 6") 120.3 x 94.6cm (47 3/8 x 37 1/4")
Accession #
NPG.67.34
Object #
39556
Credit Lines
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution The artist until 1875; Hermann Linde, publisher, New York. (Adams, Davidson Galleries, Washington, D.C.); purchased 1967 NPG. Note: Herman Linde, “A Brief History of P. H. Balling’s original oil painting of General Ulysses S. Grant “In the Trenches before Vicksburg” and a description of Jas. Fagan’s Magnificent Etching.” [n.d.] According to Adams, Davidson, an attempt around 1899 to have Congress purchase the painting for the Library of Congress failed. The painting was subsequently purchased and was displayed in the lobby of Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga Springs, NY, until 1952. It was then forgotten until a sale of the hotel's contents.