Thomas Jefferson
Rembrandt Peale, 1800
Peale's Jefferson — Enlightenment brow for the Declaration's author.
About this work
Rembrandt Peale was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of two presidents, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and this portrait of Jefferson is dated 1800, the year Jefferson won the presidential election. He served as the third president from 1801 to 1809. Peale (1778–1860) was the son of the painter Charles Willson Peale, who named him after Rembrandt and taught all his children, among them Raphaelle, Rubens and Titian, to paint. He painted Jefferson again during his presidency, in 1805, and his style later took on the influence of French neoclassicism after a stay in Paris. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. As president he made the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the country; in retirement he founded the University of Virginia, and he spent most of his adult life designing his house, Monticello. He is celebrated as an icon of American political values but is also controversial as a lifelong slave owner. He died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration.
Sources: Wikimedia Commons · Wikipedia: Rembrandt Peale · Wikipedia: Thomas Jefferson
Print facts
- Native resolution
- 7,117 × 8,497 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 47 × 56 in
- Sizes
- Small (17 × 20 in) · $100 · 419 ppi
Medium (20 × 24 in) · $150 · 354 ppi
Large (30 × 36 in) · $300 · 236 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
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