Grant and His Generals by Ole Peter Hansen Balling Art Print

An archival premium Quality Art Print of Grant and his Generals by Ole Peter Hansen Balling for sale by Brandywine General Store. The artist finished this huge oil on canvas in the year 1865. The size of the original artwork is 121 by 193 inches and now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. After the Norwegian artist, Ole Peter Hansen Balling, had sketched President Lincoln at the White House in the fall of 1864, he obtained permission to paint life portraits of leading Union generals that served under Grant during the Civil War. Balling joined General Ulysses S. Grant at City Point, VA during the campaign aginst Richmond, Virginia and spent five weeks sketching officers in the field. Philip H. Sheridan was painted while in the Shenandoah Valley, the portraits of William Tecumseh Sherman and George H. Thomas were done in Washington after the end of the war. The image of George A. Custer, 2nd from the left, is thought to be the only life portrait painted of him. The Generals in this print are from left to right as follows: Thomas Casimer Devin, George Armstrong Custer, Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, William Hemsley Emory, Philip Henry Sheridan, James Birdseye McPherson, George Crook, Wesley Merritt, George Henry Thomas, Gouverneur Kemble Warren, George Gordon Meade, John Grubb Parke, William Tecumseh Sherman, John Alexander Logan, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Joseph Hooker, Winfield Scott Hancock, John Aaron Rawlins, Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Francis Preston Blair Jr, Alfred Howe Terry, Henry Warner Slocum, Jefferson Columbus Davis, Oliver Otis Howard, John McAllister Schofield and Joseph Anthony Mower. Civil War art print #38