Born into an aristocratic family in tsarist Russia, Elizabeth Shoumatoff emigrated to the United States in 1917, eventually making her home on Long Island. Her extraordinary talent for portraiture brought commissions from some of the most illustrious families in America, Great Britain and Europe. Her clients included members of the Frick, du Pont, Mellon, Woodruff and Firestone families, plus the royal family of Luxembourg. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was sitting for her at his Warm Springs, Georgia "Little White House" when he suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage, April 12, 1945.

Hall of Fame of American Portrait Painting