Featured The Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
Franklin Pierce
- Artist
- George P. A. Healy
- Date of Work
- 1858
- Type
- Portrait
- Credit
- White House Collection/White House Historical Association
Franklin Pierce
This oil on canvas painting of President Franklin Pierce was done by George Peter Alexander Healy, sometimes known as G. P. A. Healy. Healy was one of the most popular and prolific portraitists of the
mid-nineteenth century. President Pierce fought in the Mexican-American War with the rank of brigadier general and represented New Hampshire in both the House of Representative and the Senate prior to becoming president.
You Might Also Like
-
-
Robert Ingersoll
-
Depiction of the Hayes Family
-
President and Mrs. Hoover outside the Folger Shakespeare Library
-
Laura Bush with Her Dogs
-
Actor Francis Grover Cleveland
-
Treasures of the White House: Abraham Lincoln
-
Portrait of Caroline Harrison
-
Why did President Woodrow Wilson keep a flock of sheep on the White House lawn?
-
President Roosevelt arrives in Panama
-
The White House Collection Research Sources in the Office of the Curator
A house more thoroughly documented than the White House is difficult to imagine. Historians and students of White House history...
-
Mr. Aspinwall's Gallery