President Donald Trump denounced a painting of himself that hangs in the Colorado State Capitol, labeling it “truly the worst ...

looking down at photos of the president on his phone, then back up at the portrait. Trump said he would prefer to have no portrait at all than the one currently hanging in Coloardo. Andrew Leyden ...

Mr. Roosevelt eventually commissioned John Singer Sargent to paint his official portrait. President Lyndon B. Johnson turned down the official commissioned portrait of himself by Peter Hurd, ...

Cromwell did not. We’ve noted Mr. Trump’s eye for the link between politics and portraiture before, when he traded a portrait of President Jefferson to Speaker Johnson in exchange for one of President ...

“He later opted for another portrait by John Sargent Singer.” Over half a century later, President Lyndon Johnson similarly felt as though he’d been done dirty by a portrait artist. In ...