The oil painting is 9 feet tall, including the frame. “Lincoln is 6’4”,” Farmer said. “With his top hat that he often wore, he would have been over 7 foot, and you get the sense of that ...

The painting, which depicts a bearded, older man sitting nude on a stool, has been identified as a live study by the famed 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, the auction house said.