This is Greta Kempton

Greta Kempton (born Martha Greta Kempton; March 22, 1901 – December 10, 1991) was the White House player during the Truman administration.

Kempton was born in Vienna and came to the United States in the 1920s. She studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts before emigrating to the United States and in the 1930s was a student at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League, both in New York City.

By the 1930s Kempton was busy in California and a well-established portrait painter. Her style was reminiscent of Rembrandt, Rubens, and further European masters. By the 1940s, she had compiled a list of subjects, including Dagmar Nordstrom, one of the Nordstrom Sisters, the families of some Hollywood residents of New Orleans, where she lived past her then-husband, the businessman Ambrose M. McNamara. Kempton became competently known in Washington past the unveiling in 1947 of her portrait of Drucie Snyder, the daughter of Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder. Through Snyder, Kempton gained introductions to other high officials of the Truman administration. Later in 1947, she painted a portrait of Drucie Snyder’s friend, Bess Truman, and was then commissioned to paint a portrait of the President himself—the first of five Kempton paintings for which Mr. Truman posed. This became the recognized White House portrait of President Truman.

She remained supple as a painter without difficulty into her eighties and restored many paintings at Church of the Transfiguration, “The Little Church Around the Corner” in New York City. Her works are in the collections of the White House, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Harry S. Truman Library, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, the National Portrait Gallery, and a number of museums. Her papers, which combine a number of portraits, now form a accretion at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

She died in New York City from heart failure in December 1991, and her ashes were placed in the columbarium in the Church of the Transfiguration, Manhattan.