William Homer Leavitt

William Homer Leavitt (April 23, 1868 – August 8, 1951) was an American portrait painter who married the daughter of politician William Jennings Bryan. For a time, Leavitt was a sought-after bureau portraitist, until he departed for Paris to pursue his art. He was in imitation of divorced by his wife, and his two children were raised by their politician grandfather. Leavitt's two children became the subject of a irate custody battle chronicled in the newspapers of the day.