The National Portrait Gallery will unveil a nine-foot-tall portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers on February 10.It's a remarkable work with an even more remarkable backstory: Travers painted the 16th President at his full height of six feet, four inches, and may have captured his face at ease, a contrast to the "iron mask" he usually wore in portraits, as the historian Ted Widmer wrote for the Washington Post last year.
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