Published on Feb 22, 2016 NETFLIX
President
Francis Underwood's official presidential portrait is unveiled at the
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
SMITHSONIAN
A portrait of actor Kevin Spacey, in his
Netflix role as the world's most devious president, proves that fiction
is as good as real life
By
Roger Catlin
smithsonian.com
Since Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
is the only place outside of the White House with a complete set of
presidential portraits, it figures that it would start to collect ones
of fictional presidents as well.
On February 24, a week before the premiere of the fourth season
of Netflix’ “The House of Cards,” the Portrait Gallery began to display a
handsome six-by-six foot portrait of its lead character President
Francis Underwood by the British portrait artist Jonathan Yeo.
When it was unveiled a couple of days earlier, Kevin Spacey,
the actor who won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for
portraying the imperious president, was on hand to pose for the
unveiling, just as real presidents do.
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