Francis Bicknell Carpenter

Francis Bicknell Carpenter ( born August 6 1830 in Homer (New York), † May 23, 1900 in New York City ) was an American portrait painter.

Carpenter showed early a great artist talent, became a pupil of Sandford Thayer, initially painted portraits in his hometown and settled in New York City in 1851, where he became a fellow of the Academy. In addition to an innumerable amount of portraits of distinguished persons in New York and other cities, he painted as his greatest work, the proclamation of the emancipation of slaves, the excited 1864 and 1865 a great sensation, is characteristic in the individual figures and groups, but lacks as a whole the higher ideal swing.

• Portrait painter
• American painter
• Born in 1830
• Died 1900
• Man