An outstanding artist, a contemporary of John Singer Sargent, was Swedish born Anders Zorn. A friend of Isabell Stewart Gardner, Zorn often received commissions through her and came to America for extended periods of time. He painted three American Presidents – Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. Impressive was his skill creating such wonderful portraits using a limited palette comprised of ivory black, titanium white (possibly lead white), red (probably cadmium red) and yellow ochre. Some speculate he sometimes added ultra-marine blue.
