Article snippet: It was May of 1998 and artist Ginny Stanford was at the White House meeting then-first lady Hillary Clinton for the first time. “I think the thing that struck me most about that meeting was how beautiful she was in person,” Stanford told ABC News in an interview. Stanford had been chosen to paint Clinton’s portrait for the National Gallery Museum - the first time the museum commissioned a portrait of a first lady. “There was so much warmth and humor that I sensed from her in person, and she hadn’t been portrayed like that in public,” Stanford said. “I felt really excited about the possibility about portraying this side of her.” Clinton’s image is easily recognizable, seen everywhere, photographed multiple times - so how does one reveal a side the public hasn’t seen? How does one gain the subject's trust so they relax, especially someone as guarded as Hillary Clinton? That’s the challenge portrait artists face when they’re tasked with painting the most famous faces in American politics - the president and the first lady. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. announced in October that artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald were selected to paint former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama. Each president has two official portraits, one commissioned for the White House and another for the National Portrait Gallery. When Obama was on his way out of office, the museum and the White House partnered to select the portr... Link to the full article to read more