This portrait of Abraham Lincoln, who was president from March 4, 1861 until his assassination on April 15, 1865, was painted by Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk in 1931. Volk's father, Leonard Volk, created a life mask of then presidential candidate Lincoln in 1860, and the younger Volk used the mask to create several posthumous portraits of Lincoln. The image later hung in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House.