click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson ... was the first of Jefferson's many portraits to be distributed commercially through prints.

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Since 1938, Thomas Jefferson has been on the obverse of the U.S. nickel. On the reverse of the nickel, you can see Jefferson's famous Virginia estate, known as Monticello. In 2006, the portrait on ...