This elegant portrait presents Giuseppe Trotta, a celebrated Italian-American painter best known for his portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, which was presented to the Italian Government shortly after World War I. Trotta trained at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York and went on to settle in Flushing, Queens. 

The artist, Sidney Dickinson, likewise studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. Dickinson was a prolific portraitist; among the artists whose portraits he showed at the Academy are Paul Arndt, Robert Aitken, Louis Bosa, Eugene Higgins, Hobart Nichols, Raphael Soyer, and his second cousin Edwin Dickinson. A self-portrait is part of the Academy's permanent collection, as are portraits of Mary Gray, George Wharton Edwards, Harry Wilson Watrous, Georg J. Lober, Frederick K. Detwiller, Donald De Lue, Ernest Nathaniel Townsend, John Carroll, Theodore E. Blake, Otto R. Eggers, Robert S. Hutchins, Bryant Baker and Edgar I. Williams. Other portraits include a notable set depicting members of the Rockefeller family, the official mayoral portrait of Fiorello LaGuardia, and a portrait of Governor Thomas E. Kilby of Alabama. Another portrait of Bryant Baker, donated by the subject, is owned by the National Portrait Gallery, while a portrait of photographer Paul Juley is part of the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Other portraits are owned by the Figge Art Museum, Harvard University, Princeton University, the United States Department of State and the University of Iowa. He was noted for working in wet-on-wet style, and composed many of his works directly in the studio, often completing a portrait during a single three- or four-hour sitting.

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