They're putting a lot of pressure on them."īethany Bentley, head of communications and public affairs at the National Portrait Gallery, told Business Insider the Clintons had not asked to have the portrait taken down. "They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery. "And so the Clintons hate the portrait," Shanks said. Shanks also said Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were aware of his scandal reference and wanted to hide the portrait. It is also a bit of a metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him." "It actually literally represents a shadow from a blue dress that I had on a mannequin, that I had there while I was painting it, but not when he was there.
"If you look at the left-hand side of it there's a mantle in the Oval Office and I put a shadow coming into the painting and it does two things," Shanks said. The artist said this was meant as a reference to the infamous dress Lewinsky wore during one of her trysts with the president. According to Shanks, a shadow visible next to Clinton in the portrait came from a blue dress he placed on a mannequin near the canvas when it was being painted.
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