Council+of+War,+The

Date: modeled ca. 1873
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1967/1967.114_1a.jpg?itok=UUNtzasw width="247" height="320" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/the-council-of-war-21142"]] || Title: **The Council of War**

Artist: **John Rogers** Born: Salem, Massachusetts 1829 Died: New Canaan, Connecticut 1904

Medium: painted plaster Dimensions: 24 1/8 x 17 1/8 x 13 7/8 in. (61.3 x 43.4 x 35.1 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase

Accession: 1967.114 || //The Council of War// depicts President Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and General Ulysses S. Grant discussing the Civil War. John Rogers made the group at the suggestion of Stanton, who described the scene as “one of the most interesting and appropriate occasions” for a sculpture. It was later praised by Lincoln’s son Robert Todd Lincoln, who considered it to be the most lifelike portrait of his father in sculpture.
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