File:ThomasJeffersonStateRoomPortrait.jpg

Summary

Artist



Description	American portrait painter
Date of birth/death	15 April 1741	22 February 1827
Location of birth/death	St. Paul's Parish, Maryland	Philadelphia
Work location	East coast of North America
Authority file	: Q454945 VIAF: 72190360 ISNI: 0000000082623463 ULAN: 500017914 LCCN: n80025860 NLA: 35413732 WorldCat

Object type

painting

Description

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson which hangs in the Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room on the 8th floor of the main U.S. Department of State building in Washington, D.C. It was painted by Charles Willson Peale while Jefferson was Secretary of State. It is probably a replica of Peale's 1791 portrait of Jefferson which hangs in the Independence National Historical Park. For more information, see here and here.

Date

1790s

Medium

painting

Collection

Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room on the 8th floor of the main U.S. Department of State building in Washington, D.C.

Source/Photographer

Extracted from PDF version of Keeping the Seal in Good Hands poster, part of a U.S. Diplomacy Center (State Department) exhibition on the 225th anniversary of the Great Seal. Direct PDF URL [1] (24MB)

Courtesy of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State.

Permission
(Reusing this file)

The U.S. Diplomacy Center exhibition page states All materials in this exhibition are in the public domain and can be reproduced without permission. Citation of this source is appreciated.

Other versions

This image has multiple extracted files:

Peale's 1791 painting

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

	This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
	This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.