. English: Portrait of Sarah Polk, wife of the 11th President of the United States James K. Polk. Sarah Polk posed in the White House for this portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy in 1846. The artist captured her tastes. She favored silks, satins, and velvet, like the claret-colored velvet example she wears here. Designs for her dresses were those current in the Paris of Louis-Philippe. James K. Polk Ancestral Home Collection . 1846. George Peter Alexander Healy 1021 Portrait of Sarah Polk by George Peter Alexander Healy

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Size: 2018px × 2476px
Photo credit: © The Picture Art Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., /, /., 1846., alexander, george, healy., peter