And Lyndon B. Johnson called his portrait the "ugliest thing I ever saw." Peter Hurd, a successful artist who painted the work, dismissed the president's "very damn rude" behavior in his comments to ...

“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 ...

Theodore Roosevelt famously disliked his first official portrait, calling it weak, and had it replaced. Lyndon Johnson dismissed his as “the ugliest thing I ever saw,” prompting a public ...

And Lyndon B. Johnson called his portrait the “ugliest thing I ever saw.” Peter Hurd, a successful artist who painted the work, dismissed the president’s “very damn rude” behavior in his ...