- CountryUS
- Town:NY New York City
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Year of creation:1895
- Rider(s):Lincoln, Abraham
(1809–1865) was the sixteenth president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination. Lincoln successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Brought up in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. His death was the first assassination of a US president and sent the nation into mourning. Scholars and the public consistently rank Lincoln as one of the three greatest US presidents, the others being George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Sculptor(s):Eakins and O'Donovan
Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwait (1844 –1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He sculpted the horses.
William O’Donovan (1844 – 1920) was an American sculptor. He sculpted the men.
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See also Ulysses S. Grant
Acknowledging Eakins’ expertise, in 1891 his friend the sculptor William Rudolf O’Donovan asked him to collaborate on the commission to create bronze equestrian reliefs of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch in Grand Army Plaza In Brooklyn.
