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That painting of the meeting on
River Queen was done by George P. A. Healy, who also did
the famous painting of Lincoln that hangs in the State Dining Room in the White House. Both were done posthumously from studies Healy did before the president's death in April 1865.
George's brother, Thomas Cantwell Healy, was also an artist, but he remained in the South when the war began. Thomas is known for a couple of paintings he did, one of Confederate General Beauregard, and one of the blockade runner
Denbigh, running out of Mobile in July 1864. My colleague, Barto Arnold, has located invoices for paints and artists' canvas brought into Mobile on
Denbigh, consigned to Thomas C. Healy; perhaps that painting of the ship was done in exchane for the artists' supplies.