Artwork DetailsTitle: Franklin Roosevelt Artist: Charles Stuart Forbes (1856-1926) Date: 1897 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 17.5 x 21 in. (44.45 x 53.34 cm) Catalog Number: HOFR 1266 ► Not on view HistoryThis portrait depicts Franklin at age fourteen at the time he left home to attend prep school at Groton. Unlike home, life at Groton was completely regulated. Under the headmaster, Endicott Peadbody, Franklin was taught the value of public service and the responsiblity of helping those less fortunate. At his graduation, Franklin received the award for the best Latin essay. The painter Charles Stuart Forbes was born in Geneva, Switzerland to American parents. In 1887, he studied painting with Carolus-Duran in Paris, France. There he met and became a close friend of the American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). During these years he exhibited at the Paris Salon (1887-1889); in 1891 he exhibited in the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Sara Roosevelt's diary indicates that this portrait was begun at Christmas of 1896 and finished by April 1897. |
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