Vintage sepia 4.5 x 8.5 photo of Gari Melchers’s full-length portrait of Roosevelt, affixed to a 6.5 x 12.5 mount, signed and inscribed on the mount in fountain pen, as president, “To J. C. Welliver with the regards of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, Feb. 10th 1909.” Cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 15.5 x 21.75. In fine condition. This painting may have had influence in Roosevelt’s approval of the Freer Gallery of Art, as Charles Freer commissioned Melchers to paint the portrait after petitioning the government to build a gallery for his art. A fantastic image, as Melcher was able to capture Roosevelt at his powerful and masculine best. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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