Grant and His Generals, National Portrait Gallery

Grant and His Generals

Creation Date: 1865
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Subjects: Alfred Howe Terry
Ambrose Everett Burnside
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
George Armstrong Custer
George Crook
George Gordon Meade
George Henry Thomas
Gouverneur Kemble Warren
Henry Warner Slocum
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
James Birdseye McPherson
Jefferson Columbus Davis
John Aaron Rawlins
John Alexander Logan
John Grubb Parke
John McAllister Schofield
Joseph Anthony Mower
Joseph Hooker
Oliver Otis Howard
Philip Henry Sheridan
Thomas Casimer Devin
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Wesley Merritt
William Hemsley Emory
William Tecumseh Sherman
Winfield Scott Hancock

Accession #: NPG.66.37
Object #: 68113
Credit Lines: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Harry Newton Blue in memory of her husband Harry Newton Blue (1893-1925), who served as an officer of the Regular U.S. Army 1917-1925
(Margaret Garber Blue [Mrs. Harry Newton Blue], Washington, d. 1979); gift 1966 to NPG. Notes: A complete provenance is given in Ralph McCabe, “Rare Painting Brought to Light Here,” The Sunday Star, Washington D.C., September 27, 1931: Commissioned by Benona Howard, New York, for travelling exhibition raising funds for Sanitary Commission, Union Army, but he he died before completion and it was kept by artist. Artist exhibited it New York 1866, then stored it in the museum of the Ordnance Bureau. In 1886 it was removed "temporarily" to a safe deposit warehouse; purchased in 1890 for $25,000 by a collector, stored in Washington Safe Deposit Co. on Pennsylvania Ave. The warehouse was condemned in 1931; painting was sold 1931 to Margaret Garber Blue.