Former President Barack Obama looks at former first lady Michelle Obama's official portrait at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Feb. 12 in Washington. Mr. Obama's was done by African-American artist Kehinde Wiley, while Mrs. Obama's was done by Baltimore artist Amy Sherald. Mr. Obama praised Ms. Sherald for 'spectacularly' capturing his wife. Mrs. Obama talked about the girls who would come to the National Gallery. 'They will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the walls of this great American institution.... And I know the kind of impact that will have on their lives because I was one of those girls,' she said.