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The Royal Visit, 1939

Frank O. Salisbury

Frank O. Salisbury was born in 1874 and began his art career as a teen apprentice making stained glass windows. He later became renowned for his paintings of historic events, including war art, though it was portraiture that made him hugely successful and celebrated as “Britain’s painter laureate.” His many paintings of British royals included the first official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, and his half-dozen portraits of American presidents included the official White House portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He painted titans of industry and others, from the actor Richard Burton to the dictator Benito Mussolini.