Portrait of Clemens by S. J. Woolf
from 1906 lithograph showing the Joan of Arc background tapestry substituted by Woolf for the orchestrelle which originally occupied the background.

 

Woolf's portrait of Mark Twain is now owned by the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.

The portrait was later loaned to the National Portrait Gallery. In 1983, it was once again returned to Hartford. A minor accident to the lower portion of the portrait necessitate further repair and cleaning.

 

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For the painting which I did of him he sat in the large bow window of one of his rooms. But my lithograph was made from a pencil sketch which I drew one day when he was not feeling well and had received me while he was still in his huge bed with its carved cherubim in the room on the second floor."
- From Chapter 2, DRAWN FROM LIFE by S. J. Woolf, Whittlesey, 1932, pp. 10