Evidently, Brandeis University, displayed a unique portrait of the Late President on the anniversary of his assassination.

There seems to be quite a collection of Abraham Lincoln at Brandeis. This is a portrait by a Jewish artist. 

Collection on Abraham Lincoln, (click here) 1860-1952, undated | Brandeis University 

By Jonathan Sudholt (click here)

May 15, 2015

By Penny Schwartz

 

BOSTON (JTA)-Most days, (click here) a little-known 19th-century portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1895) is tucked away in archival storage at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum.
But on April 28, the deeply allegorical portrait, painted in 1865 by the American-Jewish artist, made a rare public appearance, the first in a decade. The painting is the only known portrait of Lincoln by a Jewish contemporary.

The occasion was a home-turf book launch for Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna's "Lincoln and the Jews," cowritten with Benjamin Shapell, a collector of rare manuscripts and historical documents and the founder of the Shapell Manuscript Foundation.

The rich allegorical painting, which is reproduced in Sarna and Shapell's book, reveals the cultural milieu of Carvalho, an observant Jew of Spanish-Portuguese descent. Born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1815, Carvalho was part of a highly cultured and esteemed family, Sarna said....