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click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably the most influential of the many images painting during Jefferson's lifetime. It has been publicly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States Image by 19fortyfive.comonline The White House marked Thomas ...

The founding fathers of the U.S. make a somewhat solemn gallery in the mind. Remembered mostly from portraits painted late in their hardworking, often harsh lives, they seem austere, wrinkled and ...