Bill Clinton’s presidential legacy will forever be marred by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, even though he “did not have sexual relations” with the former White House intern. That small stain in his career was reportedly commemorated in a 2006 official portrait of Clinton that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The 77-year-old-artist, Nelson Shanks, who painted the former president, has revealed he snuck a Lewinsky reference onto the painting. Shanks spilled the news to the Philadelphia Daily News while saying the forty second president was “hard” to capture:
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In the painting, there’s a shadow cast onto the mantle that is supposed to be the shadow of the infamous blue Lewinsky dress that became a crucial piece of evidence in the investigation of the scandal. (Does "he Monica Lewinsky'd all on my gown" ring a bell?)
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Shanks says the Clintons hate the portrait (with good reason) and have been trying to get rid of it, though a spokeswoman from the National Portrait Gallery denies those claims. You can see the full portrait below:
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[via Philadelphia Daily News]
