LINCOLN, James Sullivan, artist, born in Taunton, Massachusetts, 13 May, 1811; died in Providence, Rhode Island, 19 January, 1887. At the age of fourteen he entered the service of an engraver in Providence, and afterward was admitted to a painter's studio. His early work consisted of engravings, miniatures, and landscapes; but from 1837 he devoted himself to portrait-painting, in which he was very successful. He was the first president of the Providence art club. Among his numerous portraits are those of Samuel Slater (1836); Professor William H. Goddard (1837) ; Levi Lincoln, attorney-general of Massachusetts (1860), and his son, Governor Levi Lincoln (1877), General Ambrose E. Burnside (1867); Colonel Robert G. Shaw, in Memorial hall, Cambridge (1882); Senator Henry B. Anthony (1883); and fourteen governors of Rhode Island, in the statehouse at Providence.