General Grant and His Family
Medium
Classification
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Accession Number
NPG.82.34
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Ellen Wrenshall Grant: FemaleDaughter of US PresidentFrederick Dent Grant: MaleOfficerSon of US PresidentChairTableChandelierWriterJesse Root Grant: Male
About this artwork
As this print made shortly after the Civil War demonstrates, Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Grant, and their children Fred, Buck, Nellie, and Jesse had achieved a remarkable level of fame before they even entered the White House. But some members of their household remained invisible. Raised on a farm outside of St. Louis, Missouri, that was worked by about thirty enslaved people, Julia Boggs Dent received a chilly welcome when she married into the staunchly abolitionist Grant family. A formerly enslav...