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The brothers had a portrait studio in
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Presidents and Cabinet Ministers at Washington gained for him the soubriquet of 'Painter of Presidents,' died ... as the result of a fall at his home... He was 89 years old. Mr. Ulke was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, and at the time of the
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President was carried into the famous Tenth Street house, where he was boarding. One of Mr. Ulke's best paintings was a portrait of
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Ulke and his brothers Julian and Lee moved from
Germany to the United States in 1852. Ulke worked in New York designing banknotes, then illustrations for
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on April 14, 1865. It is presumed that Julian Ulke took a famous photo of the
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