Charles Burt

Charles Burt 1823-1892. Bart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1823 and died in New York in 1892. He worked as a painter and engraver and did work for the Bureau of engraving and printing (bank noted engravings) and the American Art Union. For the Art Union he engraved Richard Woodville's "The Card Players," W. S. Mount's "Bargaining for a Horse," and Ranney's "Marion Crossing the Pedee." After 1850, Burt devoted himself primarily to banknote engraving, working for over thirty years as one of the chief engravers for the Treasury Department in Washington. He is chiefly remembered for engraving the portrait of Abraham Lincoln which appeared on the US five-dollar bill until the year 2000.