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Charles Willson Peale
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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Painting ID:: 26985
Self-Portrait with Spectacles
mk52
c.1804
Oil on canvas
66.3x56.4cm
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Philadelphia
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Painting ID:: 26986
The Artist in his Museum
mk52
1822
Oil on canvas
263.2x202.6cm
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Philadelphia
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Painting ID:: 30634
Portrait of the Peale Family
mk68
Oil on canvas
New York,
New York Historical Society
1773-1809
USA
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Painting ID:: 31985
Washington at the Battle of Princeton,January 3,1777
mk77
1784
Oil on canvas
93 3/8x56 7/8in
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Painting ID:: 38326
Mrs.Fames Smith and Grandson
mk136
Oil on canvas
1776
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Charles Willson Peale
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
. Related Artists to Charles Willson Peale: | RIGAUD, Hyacinthe | Gustav Wentzel | Ignazio Danti | Marchetti | Pieter de Kempener |
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