TJ first sat for the artist Gilbert stuart in May 1800. Stuart seems to have sent that oil painting to London for engraving, and its subsequent history is unknown. TJ sat for a second portrait in June 1805 during Stuart’s residence in Washington. This work became known as the “Edgehill Portrait” because of its long association with the Randolph family home of that name. Stuart produced his medallion stile portrait (a version of which appears on the title page of each volume of this edition) from life during the same visit. rembrandt peale painted TJ’s portrait at the President’s House in January 1805. In 1816 Delaplaine commissioned a portrait of TJ to use in his Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans (Philadelphia, 1817; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 4 [no. 139]), and he accompanied the artist Bass Otis to Monticello for the sitting (Bush, Life Portraits description begins Alfred L. Bush, The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson, rev. ed., 1987 description ends , 45–7, 54–67; Stein, Worlds description begins Susan R. Stein, The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, 1993 description ends , 139, 173).