Cowan had known Post when she was the owner and so wanted to paint the new resident. Rather than paint Trump in one of his trademark suits, Cowan gave him a ‘more Florida look’, portraying him in tennis whites. Anthony Senecal, Trump’s butler and unofficial historian, described to The New York Times how the library was ‘panelled with centuries-old British oak and filled with rare first-edition books that no one in the family ever read’.
