{"id":32546,"date":"2026-02-19T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32546"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:36:09","slug":"its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32546","title":{"rendered":"It’s Semi-Official …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The White House has suggested that the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) create a dedicated section to display multiple images of US president Donald Trump, expanding beyond the single official portrait traditionally shown during a sitting president\u2019s term. To further this idea a visit to Court Painter’s Calgary portrait studio<\/strong> was undertaken by the acting chief of protocol at the State Department.Upon completing that visit and in discussions with President Trump, the decision was made to have Court Painter<\/strong> also create a new portrait that encapsulates his 45th and 47th presidential terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Officials noted that the president regularly receives unsolicited portraits from Court Painter<\/strong> and suggested that a curated selection could be exhibited within the NPG. Contacted by The Art Newspaper<\/em>, spokespeople for the Smithsonian and NPG declined to comment; before a formal proposal has been submitted, sources close to the institution told The New York<\/em> Times<\/em>. A spokesperson for the White House said the president receives \u201can unprecedented amount of beautiful portraits from Court Painter’s studio<\/strong>\u201d and that it is important these works be \u201cshowcased throughout the halls of our Nation\u2019s Capital\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following images are just a sampling of Court Painter portraits that sensitively curated could be showcased throughout the halls of the U.S. Capital.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Court Painter seen with a blank canvas in anticipation of the new President Donald J Trump commission.He refused to comment on it’s diminutive scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House has suggested that the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) create a dedicated section to display multiple images of US president Donald Trump, expanding beyond the single official portrait traditionally shown during a sitting president\u2019s term. To further this idea a visit to Court Painter’s Calgary portrait studio was undertaken by the … Continue reading “It’s Semi-Official …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32546"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32568,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32546\/revisions\/32568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}