# Vinnie Ream

- By: George Peter Alexander Healy (born Boston, MA 1813-died Chicago, IL 1894)
- Date: ca. 1870
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 31 3/8 x 22 3/8 in. (79.7 x 56.8 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Brigadier General Richard L. Hoxie
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=10167)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e790a52c7f9bdbd3c4a8aa95c11bfe78.jpg
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The American sculptor Vinnie Ream (1847-1914) and George Healy met in Rome in the early 1870s when Ream visited Italy to oversee the carving of her full-length statue of Abraham Lincoln for the U.S. Capitol Building. Ream was the first woman, and the youngest artist, ever to receive a congressional commission for the Capitol Rotunda, in part because Lincoln had recently sat for a portrait bust by her when she was only sixteen years old.