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Painting of Frances Folsom in the Blue Room

Painting of Frances Folsom in the Blue Room

"Something Blue. Captured by Color, 1886." The beautiful Frances Folsom was only twenty-one years old when she married President Grover Cleveland, who was forty-nine, and the only president to marry in the White House. The ceremony took place in the Louis Comfort Tiffany-designed Blue Room looking out to the South Lawn. The rococo-revival blue furniture, purchased by Harriet Lane, President James Buchanan's niece, is still in the White House collection.

Artist
Peter Waddell
Credit
White House Historical Association