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...scarred little picture has rested unidentified for more than a century in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It is the work of a minor Swiss artist named Pierre Eugène du Simitière, who settled in Philadelphia and became Jefferson's friend. Paul Sifton, an American scholar and Du Simitière expert, last week showed evidence that the picture's subject is really Jefferson, done from life at 33 at the time of the Declaration of Independence...
...long, slightly turned-up nose. The features are the same as in the next earliest Jefferson portrait known, painted by Mather Brown in 1786. But that picture shows a man marked by struggle, who has come through one of the most momentous decades in human history. Seen through Du Simitière's eyes, the young Jefferson in crisis emerges as a paragon of refined and virile good looks, radiating courage-and hope...
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