Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018

The present portrait, identical in pose to the first, was offered at the auction of the Lloyd Ostendorf Collection of Lincolniana in 2004, where is was incorrectly described as a retouched photograph. Weinberg purchased it for sale to Holzer. Whether this portrait was Wolfe’s August 1860 original, or one of his later copies produced after the assassination, may be impossible to determine. Provenance: owned by Lincoln collector George A. Zeller (1858-1938), who loaned it to an Illinois court house; famed collector and researcher Lloyd Ostendorf, who had the painting restored in 1970 and appraised in 1994; Bonham & Butterfield’s Ostendorf sale, 23 November 2004, lot 9026, to the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop and thence to the consignor. PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS LOTS 44 - 55