Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl (born 1785–1788; died Nashville, Tennessee September 16, 1838), was an American painter known as the "court painter" to President Andrew Jackson.[1][2] He also painted the portrait of Rachel Jackson.
^Aronson, Julie (1992). "Ralph E. W. Earl". In Chotner, Deborah (ed.). American naive paintings. Washington Cambridge, England: National Gallery of Art Cambridge University Press. pp. 103–104. ISBN0-521-44301-6.