Visitors to Colorado's Capitol shared their views about a portrait of Donald Trump which has since been removed from the building after the president expressed his dislike of the artwork. “As far as I’m concerned, this portrait is a beautiful portrait," said Jade Steven, an artist who was visiting the Capitol on Monday. "It captures his likeness to an impeccable degree. I think the command of form and light and shape and proportion is fantastic. And I’ll be frank, it looks great.” Another visitor from Michigan, James Seals, said Tuesday he was disappointed the portrait had been taken down. “I think it’s an overly sensitive reaction to the president’s expressed disapproval,” he said. "I don’t believe in taking things down because one person doesn’t like them, even if it’s a photo of them or a portrait of them.” Filling an empty space on the wall of presidential portraits in the building with a new painting of Trump could take time after one he disliked was removed and put into storage. Legislative leaders from both parties will decide how to replace the painting that Trump derided Sunday night on social media and that by Tuesday morning had been taken down. When they will meet about a new painting is anyone’s guess. The Legislature is focused on more pressing matters including the state budget. Colorado Republicans raised more than $10,000 to commission the Trump painting that had been in the state Capitol since 2019, alongside other U.S. presidents. Sometime late Monday or early Tuesday, the Trump portrait by Colorado Springs artist Sarah Boardman was removed and put in storage with History Colorado, overseer of a state museum in Denver. The move came at the request of Colorado Republicans after Trump claimed the artist had “purposefully distorted” him. He praised the portrait of Barack Obama, painted by the same artist. Boardman did not return phone and email messages seeking comment. In 2019, she said painted him with a “nonconfrontational” and “thoughtful” expression, drawing criticism from those who said that’s not who he really is. She said her portraits of Trump and Obama were not political statements. The presidential portraits are not the purview of the Colorado Building Advisory Committee. The ones up to and including President Jimmy Carter were donated as a collection. The others were donated by political parties or paid for by outside fundraising.