President Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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