Cracked-plate portrait of Abraham Lincoln
at National Portrait Gallery
Alexander Gardner
British1821–1882
About
Alexander Gardner was a Scottish-American photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and of the conspirators and the execution of the participants in the Lincoln assassination plot.
Notable works
A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863
at National Gallery of Art
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
at J. Paul Getty Museum
Works in the collection
3 works
Cracked-plate portrait of Abraham Lincoln
at National Portrait Gallery
A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863
at National Gallery of Art
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
at J. Paul Getty Museum
More by Alexander Gardner in institutions
National Portrait Gallery
Washington, D.C., United States
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
