A portrait of John D. Rockefeller circa 1900, after he had built Standard Oil into the largest oil company in the United States. Oscar White/Wikimedia Commons The story of John D. Rockefeller is ...

Right: by Adrian Lamb (Copy after: John Singer Sargent), gift of J.D. Rockefeller III When LL Cool J prepared to pose for a portrait by a renowned artist, he looked to tycoon and philanthropist ...

Billionaire John D. Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 to May 23, 1937) continues to rank as one of the richest men in modern times. He rose from modest beginnings to become the founder of Standard Oil in ...

Portrait painters have never done much business with John D. Rockefeller Sr. Until last week there were only two known portraits of him that he had paid for. John Singer Sargent had done them both.

When Ida Tarbell told her father that her employer, McClure’s magazine, had assigned her to an expose of John D. Rockefeller ... early life and has written a portrait of this ambitious yet ...