Resolution No. 51, passed in 1865, provided that a commission be appointed “to contract with some competent artist for a life-size portrait of Henry Clay, to be placed in the Senate Chamber.”
Conservator Bob Lodge worked on the portrait of Henry Clay by William Frye, ca. 1865, in the Old State Capitol as part of the Saving America's Treasures grant from the National Park Service in 2004. KHS Collections.