Added by: bruceyrock632First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, painted by Francis Bicknell Carpenter in 1864. From left to right: Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, President Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of State William Seward (seated), Secretary of the Interior Caleb B. Smith, Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, Attorney General Edward Bates
Oil on canvas, 1864