Even before the last brush strokes had been applied to the canvas, President Theodore Roosevelt was dissatisfied with his official White House portrait. Just the previous year, French artist Théobald Chartran (1849-1907) had painted a dignified yet casually posed portrait of First Lady Edith Roosevelt. Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States; 1902 by … Continue reading Seeing and Telling
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Decorum, Degeneracy, Democracy: A Meandering Trail
American artist George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) left behind a vast body of work that is a historian’s dream. George Peter Alexander Healy, Self-portrait 1851 He painted portraits of innumerable people of note, including William Tecumseh Sherman, Pope Pius IX, Daniel Webster, John Audubon, and Louis Philippe I, the Citizen King. The Corcoran Gallery in … Continue reading Decorum, Degeneracy, Democracy: A Meandering Trail
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