Attorney General: Nathan Clifford

(1813-1894)
Healy was born in Boston where he began his artistic career at seventeen. He became internationally known and was patronized by the royal families of England and France. From 1844 to 1867, Healy filled innumerable commissions in the District of Columbia and along the eastern seaboard. After the Civil War he traveled to Europe, but returned finally to the United States in 1892 and died in Chicago two years later. He was one of the most successful 19th century portrait painters and was the subject of three books, including his own, Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter . Healy painted Attorney General Clifford in 1876.