oil painting thomas jefferson monticello

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Oil painting of Thomas JeffersonÃ¢â¬â¢s Monticello

Oil painting of Thomas JeffersonÃ¢â¬â¢s Monticello by a artist. Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, who, after inheriting quite a large amount of land from his father, started building Monticello when he was 26 years old. Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region, the plantation was originally 5,000 acres, used for extensive cultivation of tobacco and mixed crops, with labor by slaves. Like other planters, Jefferson shifted from tobacco cultivation to a wheat plantation to respond to changing markets.