Artist: Charles Willson Peale Painting: Self-Portrait with Spectacles Introduction: mk52
c.1804
Oil on canvas
66.3x56.4cm
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Philadelphia
Artist: Charles Willson Peale Painting: Portrait of the Peale Family Introduction: mk68
Oil on canvas
New York,
New York Historical Society
1773-1809
USA
Washington at the Battle of Princeton,January 3,1777 Painting ID:: 31985
1741-1827
Painter and museum founder. After serving as a saddler's apprentice in Annapolis, MD, from 1754 to 1761, he worked at various trades, including painting signs and portraits. In 1766 some prominent Marylanders underwrote his studies in London with Benjamin West, from whom he absorbed the fundamentals of the British portrait tradition. Peale probably attended the informal life classes offered at St Martin's Lane Academy, precursor to the Royal Academy Schools, and drew from casts in the Duke of Richmond's collection in Whitehall. He visited the studios of such important British portrait painters as Joshua Reynolds, Francis Cotes and Allan Ramsay and studied the techniques of miniature painting, sculpture and engraving. In London he executed his first major commission
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