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{SPEAKER name="Unknown speaker"} [[inaudible]] or not but I just wondered if you could explain the difference cause it is to me so dramatic and so perfect almost compared to the other one, which I think the family liked.

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
You know, Jefferson, once he sort of broke the ice and sat for this portrait,

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
he sat for many portraits throughout his career and each artist sees I think something a little different in Jefferson.

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
Trumbull knew him very well, and I think he brought that deep knowledge of Jefferson with him so much in Paris and later to the,

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
um, I think the part you're talking about is a small portrait.

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
There's one that, one belongs to Monticello and one to the White House, um, and it has a vivacity that you don't see here and

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
a bit more, sort of, sensitive individuality. And that may be what others were seeing and not liking about this one.

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
Rembrandt Peale did wonderful portraits of Jefferson when he was president, including one that belongs to

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
the Newark Historical Society with beautiful fur collar and in that you get a great deal of precision and detail.

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
Thomas Sully painted Jefferson later in his life and included a wonderful full length and there you get a very free brush

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
and just different interpretations, which is, with a public figure, you can get insight into the way a lot of different artists see that person,

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
whereas for most people at this time, there would've been no portrait or perhaps for someone with enough money to afford one,

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
a portrait of the head of the family or maybe of a husband and wife or a beloved child

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
but with these public figures, there were so many portraits because there was such an interest in them.

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
And prints were made after some of the portraits and exchanged and sold so that you,

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
you've hit on something kind of wonderful that was somebody like Jefferson, we can

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{SPEAKER name="Brandon Fortune"}
try to have a contest as to who really captured him, but, of course, we don't know!
Other questions?

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