Francis B. Carpenter Abe Lincoln Painter Tee

Francis Bicknell Carpenter (August 6, 1830 – May 23, 1900) was an American painter born in Homer, New York. Carpenter’s most famous painting, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, hangs in the United States Capitol. Carpenter lived in the White House in 1864 while working on the picture. In 1866 he published his memoir Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln. Frank Carpenter's childhood home still stands in Homer, as do the buildings where his first studio was located.