This portrait of Abraham Lincoln comes signed and numbered by the highly renowned American realist painter and teacher, Lyndall Bass. After working on the "Shield Cent" design which can be seen on the reverse of any penny minted since 2010, Lyndall Bass was inspired to draw a protrait of Abraham Lincoln. She carefully selected a photograph of President Lincoln to express who Lincoln was as a person and what type of man he had become.

Lyndall Bass, is decorated with many awards such as a National Society of Arts and Letters award, a Franklin Mint Award of Excellence, and possibly her greatest feat so far, the 2010 Lincoln Penny Reverse Design Award.