1To Thomas Jefferson from Rembrandt Peale, 17 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
My Knowledge of your fondness for the fine Arts, is my only excuse for troubling you with this Letter; prepossessed at the same time with the idea that you are particularly interested in the perfection of American Genius, and must feel Satisfaction in being the Instrument of forwarding it. Devoted to the practice of my Art, with but poor encouragement & without scarcely having any Models but...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Rembrandt Peale, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
To your flattering Communication , an immediate answer was unavoidably prevented. I shall feel happy in being able to furnish you with an accurate Copy of your Portrait, at my usual price 30 Dollars—which shall be immediately begun and finished as soon as possible. It has met with general approbation, but from the difficulty of the front face, I am afraid the marks of Copy may not be so much...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Rembrandt Peale, [24 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
I take the earliest opportunity of informing you that the Copy is now finished & shall be disposed of according to any Orders you may send. In order to have furnished you with an accurate likeness, as well as to be myself possessed of one more to my Satisfaction, I could have wished for an opportunity, without imposing too disagreable a task, to have made some improvement in both with an hour...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Rembrandt Peale, 13 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson President of the United States of America to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. The bearer hereof, Rembrandt Peale, a native citizen of these United States, proposing to travel into foreign parts for his private concerns, and especially to visit the countries of France & Italy with a view to improve himself in the art of painting, of which art he is a professor:...
5Thomas Sully to Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
An association has lately been formed in this City consisting of Artists, & Amateurs, residing in different parts of the Union; Under the Title of Society of Artists of U.S. I am requested to communicate to you in the name of the Society . That you were unanimously elected a m an Honorary member at a special meeting held on the 15 th inst : Your love for the Arts & Sciences, and your long &...
6Rembrandt Peale to Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In a Box of Books which general Armstrong presented to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine-Arts there were packed up several articles belonging to himself which he requested me to take charge of, It was a long time after I had them before I remarked a small package for you, containing 3 Stones which you were desirous of possessing, accompanied with a letter from the gentleman who purchased them...
7Thomas Jefferson to Rembrandt Peale, 11 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved by mr Correa your favor of July 13. and with it the peices of agate & Madrepore sent me thro’ Gen l Armstrong & to your care. the transaction stated in the letter accompanying them had so entirely escaped my memory, that the name being subscribed in illegible characters, I am not able to ascertain from whom it comes. I am not however the less obliged to one who recollects to do...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Rembrandt Peale, 8 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Artist who is devoted to his pencil seldom writes with his pen, yet I am induced to take up mine to inform you that my pencil, which of late was employd in the Court of Death, is now performing the mighty act of resuscitating the form of Washington. Although he sat to me for an original Portrait in 1795, and both my father & Stuart painted him in the same year, yet neither of Those...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Rembrandt Peale, 19 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d yesterday your favor of Jan. 8. on the subject of the portrait of Gen. Wash n on which you are engaged. from the circumstances of the corrections needed by all those which have been here to fore taken, and the views you give of them, I have no doubt you will produce one peculiarly worthy of the original. the visit you flatter me with would indeed be a most welcome one. I should hope to...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Rembrandt Peale, 29 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We want at the University of Virginia a teacher of landscape painting of high qualifications in that line. he would be no otherwise connected with the institution but as a voluntary adjunct without salary, lodging or any thing else. his only emoluments would be what he should recieve from the Students who would engage with him, our present term is near it’s close, and the next begins on the 1...