Soon after the disappointing Chartran debacle, the president contacted another well known portraitist, John Singer ... Sargent’s portrait of Roosevelt is the one that we now know today—Teddy ...

John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller ...

In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Whitelaw Reid ... which includes this Sargent portrait, to be donated to the nation. Thanks to her generosity, the works are kept on permanent public display ...

An avid outdoorsman, politician, and quote machine, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was never ... for his official presidential portrait by artist John Singer Sargent. Rather than sit for one or ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive ...

The legendary American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925 ... Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt sat for him. In 1918, Sargent enlisted in World War I as an artist and created ...