Artist/Maker
Artúr Lajos Halmi
(Hungarian, 1866 – 1939)
Depicted
William Howard Taft
(American, 1857 – 1930)
William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
1912
Oil on canvas
Overall: 50 1/2 × 40 1/2 in. (128.3 × 102.9 cm)
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
1942.436
This portrait of President Taft, the twenty-seventh president of the United States (1909-1912), was purchased from the widow of the artist. The New-York Historical Society owns several letters relating to this portrait written by Halmi and C. D. Hilles, secretary to the president.
Markingssignature and date: lower right: "Halmi / White House 1912"
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