Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Portraits and Painters of the Governors of Indiana, 1800-1943
The sustained interest of Governor Baker and his friends brought about the desired results within a few months, and the foundation of the official portrait gallery was laid. Six artists were employed on the project at the time, working from living models or from earlier paintings or photographs as the circum stances required. Their work seems to have satisfied the Governor and met the specifications of the legislature. Each portrait presented a different problem, as the following pages show. Thirteen of the seventeen preceding governors had died, making the job of obtaining likenesses a difficult one - some had died before the introduction of photography. The portraits of the men who were still living in 1869 presented no serious obstacles.
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