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Robert Linlithgow Livingston, Jr.

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Date

2006

Artist

Laurel Stern Boeck

Dimensions

49 x 34 in. (124.5 x 86.4 cm) Framed: 57 3/16 x 42 1/2 in. (145.3 x 108 cm)

Accession Number

2006.062.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

The Capitol’s dome is visible over the sitter’s shoulder in this painting. A symbol of the legislative branch, and indeed the nation since its completion in 1863, the dome appears in more than half a dozen portraits in the House Collection. This one, of Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Livingston, includes another familiar element in official portraiture, the American flag. Livingston served over 20 years in the House, the last four of them as Chairman of this committee.

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