Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1819
The Associated Press reported that a rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation sold for more than $2 million. This brought to mind a painting in the collection at the White House painted by Dorchester artist William Tolman Carlton.
Carlton was a portrait and genre painter who was active in the Boston area from 1836 till after the Civil War. Perhaps his most famous painting is the one called Watch Meeting –Waiting for the Hour, now in the collection of the White House. He depicted a group of slaves waiting for the Emancipation to take effect on January 1, 1863.
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