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Mrs. Johnson spearheaded efforts to acquire the portrait and it was purchased by the White House Historical Association for the White House Collection. The portrait was painted by Douglas Chandor. Eleanor Roosevelt first sat for the portrait in Chandor's New York studio in 1949. Photographer.
The Russian-born Shoumatoff had painted President Roosevelt from life on two occasions, the first in 1943 from a sitting in the Oval Office. In April 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia, the president was posing for this second likeness when he was stricken and died.
Mar 31, 2016 · A delicate painting of Eleanor by Otto Schmidt, commissioned by her son Elliott and given to FDR as a birthday present in 1933, hung in the Oval Study until FDR’s death in 1945. When Eleanor first saw it she started crying, demurring that “she wasn’t that pretty.” This was Franklin Roosevelt’s favorite portrait of her.
First Ladies' Portraits that Adorn the Vermeil Room. Douglas Chandor caught the vivaciousness and changing moods in this multiple-image portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, painted in his studio in New York City in 1949.
May 2, 2020 · English: Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, painted in the New York studio of Douglas Chandor in 1949. In 1966 the painting was purchased for the White House by the White House Historical Association. It hangs in the Vermeil Room. More information from the White House Historical Association; Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day column of December 16, 1949
- Douglas Granville Chandor
- American-English painter
- 20 August 1897
- Warlingham
Dec 10, 2018 · Eleanor Roosevelt by Bernard T. Frydrysiak, 1946; Oil on canvas; Ford and Marni Roosevelt In 1933, she became First Lady of the United States and feared the change it would bring to her life.
As the first Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1946, Eleanor Roosevelt led the charge to create the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, now known as the “Bill of...
