Keywords: Thomas Jefferson - by Gilbert Stuart - c 1821 - Natl Portrait Gallery Washington DC.jpg Artwork en Oil on wood portrait of President Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart circa 1821 Stuart painted five presidents -- George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison and James Monroe -- as part of a set commissioned by Colonel George Gibbs of Rhode Island These were some of the last paintings in Stuart's career Much later the Gibbs family sold the set to Thomas Jefferson Coolidge an ancestor of President Calvin Coolidge The Coolidge family sold the five portraits known as the Gibbs-Coolidge Collection to the National Gallery of Art in April 1979 1821 painting Institution National Portrait Gallery Washington http //www nga gov/image/a00002/a0000259 jpg other versions PD-old-100 Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart 19th-century portrait paintings in the National Portrait Gallery United States 1821 |