According to the Smithsonian’s Art Inventories Catalog, the current owner is ‘Unlocated’. I’m guessing that Ferris’s estate has all the original ‘Pageant of a Nation’ paintings in a warehouse somewhere and is just collecting fees from the various reproductions, even although the copyrights have presumably now expired.
He was described as a “distractible doofus” in The New Yorker:
Are we sure that’s the same painting? Everything I’ve seen names it Doctrine of Monroe.
The painting is by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. Ferris also painted this spectacular piece:
“Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard” It was featured as a two-page spread in the American Heritage Junior Library volume Pirates of the Spanish Main and subsequently in the movie The Goonies.
Sorry, got distracted.
Here’s a photo of Roosevelt standing in front of what appears to be the same globe as in the painting:
Yes. This is the description from its 1923 copyright registration.