By Edward S. Cooper
She used to be capable, via smart maneuvering and dogged decision, to accomplish a fee from the Congress for a life-sized statue of the assassinated president—this regardless of the very actual animus opposed to ladies artists at the moment, that is obvious within the heated arguments opposed to granting her the Lincoln commission—arguments spearheaded within the Senate by way of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.
Steeped within the historical past of her time, Vinnie Ream used to be concerned with dozens of senators and congressmen and different strong men—not least of all Generals Sherman and Custer—and her studio on Capitol Hill grew to become a mythical preventing position for plenty of admirers and travelers. Her statue of Lincoln stands within the rotunda of the capitol development; her statue of Admiral Farragut stands in a Washington, D.C. park; different works are in Statuary corridor and numerous museums. this can be an attractive biography of a lively lady artist, and an efficient portrait of Washington, D.C. within the Civil battle era.
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