Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — RUSSIAN PAINTER FOR WHOM ROOSEVELT IS SITTING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RUSSIAN PAINTER FOR WHOM ROOSEVELT IS SITTING.

President Roosevelt has begun to sit for a portrait hy M. Constantine Makovsky, the Russian artist. M. Makovsky is the court painter of St. Petersburg. He has painted the Czar and his father before him, and the grand dukes of the imperial family. He arrived in the United States on the same steamer as Count Cassini. The reception given in his honor at the Russian embassy was the first large function of the season in Washington.

M. CONSTANTINE MAKOVSKY.