Biografie von L. R. JACOBS (XIX)

Addresses: Brooklyn, NY 1852-56; Cincinnati, OH, 1859-61; Chicago, IL 1866-67

Profession: Portrait painter

Exhibited: NAD, 1852-53

Comments: As of 1955, private collectors in New Carlisle (Ohio) owned his 1867 portrait of Lincoln, which was said to be a replica of his earlier life portrait painted when Jacobs was a neighbor of Lincoln in Springfield (Ill.).

Sources: G&W; Brooklyn CD 1852-53 [as L.K.], 1856 [as L.R.]; Cowdrey, NAD; Cincinnati CD 1859-60 [as L.R.], 1861 [as L. Rowley]; Chicago CD 1866-67; letter, Mrs. W.H. Miller, New Carlisle (Ohio), to D.H. Wallace, May 6, 1955.