A black man sits on a log in this artist's portrait of John Henry, which is titled A Well-Remembered Servant.
A black man sits on a log in this artist's portrait of John Henry, which is titled A Well-Remembered Servant. This student of Samuel Morse began making imperialsized portraits with ambrotype after earning First Prize at the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Another of this artist's portraits shows his beardless subject standing next to a column on the day that the subject gave the (*) Cooper Union Speech. This artist stands next to a tree to the right of the title figures in his General Robert Potter and Staff. Men such as Millard Fillmore were included in his Gallery of Illustrious Americans. He exhibited works made by Alexander Gardner and James Gibson, including one of a mass of dead bodies lying next to a fence at Antietam. For 10 points, name this Civil War photographer.
A black man sits on a log in this artist's portrait of John Henry, which is titled A Well-Remembered Servant.
Mathew B. Brady